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THE APPLE II MAGAZINE

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A LOOK TO
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C: Today's Hottest Language
gs Assembly Programming
The Mac Look for the II

November
1986
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VERSARECEIVABLES T " $99.95

VERSA RECEIVABLES*" is a complete menu-driven accounts receivable, invoicing, and
monthly statement-generating system. It keeps track of all information related to who
owes you or your company money, and can provide automatic billing for past due ac-
counts. VERSA RECEIVABLES" prints all necessary statements, invoices, and summary
reports and can be linked with VERSALEDGER 11™ and VERSAlNVENTORY'".

VERSAPAYABLES™ $99.95

VERSA PAYABLES™ is designed to keep track of current and aged payables, keeping you
in touch with all information regarding how much money your company owes, and to
whom. VERSA PAYABLES™ maintains a complete record on each vendor, prints checks,
check registers, vouchers, transaction reports, aged payables reports, vendor reports,
and more. With VERSAPAYABLES™, you can even let your computer automatically select
which vouchers are to be paid.

VERSAPaYROLL™ $99.95

VERSA PAYROLL™ is a powerful and sophisticated, but easy to use payroll system that
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VERSAlNVENTORY™ $99.95

VERSA Inventory™ is a complete inventory control system that gives you instant access
to data on any item. VERSAlNVENTORY'" keeps track of all information related to what
items are in stock, out of stock, on backorder, etc., stores sales and pricing data, alerts
you when an item falls below a preset reorder point, and allows you to enter and print
invoices directly or to link with the VERSA RECEIVABLES™ system. VERSAlNVENTORY™ prints
all needed inventory listings, reports of items below reorder point, inventory value re-
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VersaLedger ir $149.95

VERSALEDGER II™ is a complete accounting system that grows as your business
grows. VERSALEDGER ir" can be used as a simple personal checkbook register,
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• VERSALEDGER IT™ gives you almost unlimited storage capacity

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• prints tractor-feed checks,

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VERSALEDGER IT" comes with a professionally-written 160 page manual de-
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Tracks your financial assets - and

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inCider

ON THE COVER

Visions

of GS Software

Will the new llGS inspire software
developers to create the kinds of
programs Apple II users have
been waiting for?

Exploring
the World of C

Why is C the "official language" of
the Apple llGS? This compact, com-
petent language combines the best
of higher-level languages like BASIC
and lower-level ones like assembly
language.

Delving into
Assembly Language

The GS's 65816 microprocessor
opens up a powerful new world for
assembly-language programmers.

Desktop
Organizers

These three programs borrow a
little style from the Macintosh
and let you run your programs
more smoothly.

ARTICLES

What Do These
People Have
in Common?

Whether you coach a Little League
team or sell mobile homes, one of
these seven data-base manage-
ment programs will let you store
and sort information easily.

inCider

Vol.4 No. 11
November 1986

DEPARTMENTS

\d inCider's View 8

Q'") Let Apple
/.Z-Take Control

Your Apple II can do more than the
traditional applications. When it
comes to running your household,
an Apple is better than a butler.

O Learn Languages
with Logo

This month's free program listing
uses the Apple II Logo language to
help you learn a foreign language.

I07

Trace Your Roots
with AppleWorks

If you're plagued by questions
about your family history, use
AppleWorks to discover the deep,
dark secrets of your ancestry.

TUTORIALS

AppleWorks in Action 118

Publishing a Company

Newsletter

by Ruth K. Witkin

Applesoft Adviser 124

Data-Base Arrays
by Dan Bishop

Teachers' Choice 130

Testing the AppleWorks
Data Base
by David Goodrum
and Joel Robbins

Pascal Primer 136

Large-Program Tools— Part 1
by Tom Swan

inCider's View

Risky Business
by Deborah de Peyster

Letters 8

News Line 1 8

To Russia, with Apples; Stu-
dents' Winning Ideas; New De-
velopments in Home Control;
Spanning the Globe

Apple Clinic 22

ProDOS and AppleWorks; Noise
Pollution; Color Questions and
Memory; Wrong Reference;
Music in His Soul; Get Smart; It
Couldn't Be Done; BBS Update;
AppleWorks Wide; Disk, Disk
by Paul Statt

Reviews 30

MultiScribe; ProModem 1200A
and AppleMate; Tobacco and
Fitness; Fleet System 3; Auto-
Works; MIDI Users Sequencer/
Editor; The Handlers; B-Sider

Stattus Report 148

De]a Vu
by Paul Statt

E.G. For Example 150

Erotic Software
by Eric Grevstad

New Products 152
Game Room 161

Amnesia

by Brian J. Murphy

Hints/Techniques 164

Binary-to-Text Revision; Word-
Processor Data Base; Recover-
ing WordStar Data; Applesoft
Decimals

Coming Attractions 174
Reader Services 174
Editors' Choice 176

VIP Professional:

Lotus Blossoms for the II

INCIDER'S VIEW

Risky Business

"Mail order is
only as good as
the company
with which you're
dealing."

by Deborah de Peyster

Ronald Compton wants to buy his son
a new printer and some software for
Christmas. He places his order with a
mail-order firm in mid-November and is told
the present will arrive soon. Compton's
charge card is billed only six days later for
the full $343, but the gift doesn't arrive. He
waits, starts to get nervous, and phones the
mail-order company once, twice, then con-
tinually. It seems he's getting nowhere fast,
and time is quickly running out.

Christmas Eve; the gift hasn't arrived.
Compton is out the $343 and has yet to
make contact with anyone at the mail-order
firm who follows through on delivery of the
product or return of his credit.

"To say that my son's Christmas was a
disaster is an understatement," Compton
wrote to us last year.

Well, the buying time of year is upon us
again, and we want you to know that Ron-
ald Compton was hardly alone in his frus-
tration. During the past year, we've
received many letters from you telling us of
your troubles in buying through mail order.
Many of the problems are similar, and
many are with the same mail-order firms.

Although not the company with which
Compton had difficulty, a frequent subject
of your letters is Northeastern Software, of
Shelton, Connecticut. Northeastern general
manager George Sutyak acknowledges the
firm has had trouble filling orders efficiently
and returning credit quickly. A move to new
headquarters in March and rapid growth of
the company were at the root of these prob-
lems, he says. An automated inventory, or-
der-taking, and purchasing system put in
place in August should help solve them, he
reports.

But Northeastern is only one of more than
20 computer-equipment mail-order firms with
which you might choose to do business. De-

pending on your luck, you might have a
good experience and receive your order
quickly at a reasonable price, or end up
like Robert Hildreth, another reader who
wrote to us citing statistics such as 30
phone calls in four months, 14 hours on
hold, and still no refund for products never
shipped.

Many mail-order firms are experiencing
rapid growth, and many aren't handling it
successfully. Some won't be in business
next year, or maybe even next month. But
some very good, reputable mail-order firms
are out there, and we think it's worth your
while to find them. So here's some advice
from inCider on reducing the risk of order-
ing computer equipment and supplies
through the mail.

First, spend some time talking to friends.
Ask them where they got the best service,
not the lowest price. You should also call
your local computer club or user group for
recommendations. Some computer clubs
(such as the Boston Computer Society)
even put out bulletins warning users about
firms that may cause trouble.

Call the company; before you place an
order, ask a few questions about the prod-
uct in which you're interested. If you get a
courteous reply, that's a good sign. If you
get a courteous and intelligent reply, order
right away!

Also make sure you ask about promised
delivery and return policies, and, whenever
you order anything through the mail, take
notes throughout your conversation. Record
the day and time you called, the name of
the person who placed your order, and any
guarantees the company makes about de-
livery, return, and quality.

We believe mail order is a good way to
buy products, but it's only as good as the
company with which you're dealing. That's
the key to making mail order work for you.
Good luck.B

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BRIGHT IDEAS

Orange Micro® Innovations for the Apple IIgs

The Revolution Continues

For over six years Orange Micro has demonstrated an unequalled
ability to convert bright ideas into the high quality Apple inno-
vations that you require. Products for the Apple
II + , He and Ik and most recently the
Image Writer™ II have consistently been
top sellers, and have enjoyed the sup-
port of experts and software pub-
lishers alike. With the new Apple IIgs
computer. Orange Micro is again
leading the way with three excit-
ing new ideas to enhance your
new Apple system.

rcsGrappter

Intelligent Printer Interfacing

RamPak 4GS

Memory Sub-System

Orange Micro's new RamPak 4gs
delivers unprecedented memory expan-
sion capacity and powerful memory man-
agement utilities. With 512K of RAM
standard, the RamPak 4gs is socketed and
ready for an incredible four megabytes on a
single card. But it's far more than just a simple
memory card. The RamPak 4gs also includes
powerful software for RAM Caching, Dynamic
Memory Allocation, and utilizes Apple's RAM
Disk. These features not only assure the most
efficient use of your system memory in any
application, but they can increase your process-
ing speed dramatically.

A Commitment to Innovation and Excellence

These high quality products represent Orange Micro's continued
commitment to Apple and the landmark Apple II series of
computers. Our development efforts are, and have been, totally
dedicated to bright ideas for Apple Computers. We've been
dedicated to it for years and we aren't going to change now. So
when you pick up your IIgs, take a look at us. Enhance your system
with solutions from Orange Micro.

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Parallel printing is
fast, and now
the new Pro-
Grappler

represents
the hottest
technol-
ogy in par-
allel

printer interfacing. Screenshot
capability (IIgs only) lets you
print screens for most popular
software packages. New pull-
down menus accept either
mouse or keyboard input,
allowing you to easily select
your printing options right on
the He or IIgs screen. We've also
added printer set-up, so you can
select your printer's special fea-
tures without complex commands
or special codes. All the commands
of the original Grappler+ have been
kept intact, ensuring compatibility with
the thousands of software products sup-
porting the Grappler. Go with the Pro-
Grappler, the most powerful parallel printer
interface available.

COMING SOON:
IIgs Maintenance System

Your new Apple
IIgs will require
proper care,
and Orange
Micro's mainte-
nance system
has everything
you need to keep your system running strong.
The maintenance system provides surge pro-
tected power for your Apple IIgs and any two
additional peripherals from a single convenient
switch; a third unswitched power outlet; a power-
ful fan to provide filtered, cooling air; and an hour
meter that tells you how long your system has
been powered up. We have even included a
guide of scheduled maintenance for use with the
hour meter to help you properly care for your
new computer. The maintenance system is a
complete package that lets you relax knowing
that your new investment is well protected.

UOranqe M«o

M inc.

1400 N. Lakeview Ave.. Anaheim, CA 92807
(714) 779-2772 Telex: 5101001014 ORANGE MICRO

ETTERS

Help for AppleWorks

The AppleWorks User Group (TA-
WUG) is an organization specializing
in the AppleWorks program. We main-
tain a clearinghouse of AppleWorks
templates and currently have more
than 28 disks of templates for the
data base and spreadsheet, as well
as notes and comments about the
word processor. These disks also
contain member-submitted reviews of
AppleWorks-compatible programs and
related books and magazines. In ad-
dition, we have a collection of public-
domain utilities that enhance Apple-
Works.

TAWUG maintains an AppleWorks
subboard on a BBS called The Board
at (303) 756-5222. We have an
AppleWorks discussion group, and
you can download the latest tem-
plates. For more information and a
price list, please send a self-ad-
dressed, stamped envelope to the ad-
dress below.

The AppleWorks User Group
P.O. Box 24869
Denver, CO 80224

More Storage

While the recent trend in office
(group) computer communication has
been directed toward problems asso-
ciated with networking, not all groups
are looking for this level of sophistica-
tion. We are a biomedical research
group of six Apple users, and have
recently been contemplating the pur-
chase of an equal number of hard
disks. In examining our possibilities,
we concluded that the easiest way for
all of us to have access to a large
amount of disk space would be with
a mass-storage/multiplexor system.

Having read inCider since its in-
ception, I went searching through my
back issues looking for reviews or
product information. Unfortunately, it
appears inCider hasn't looked into
these types of "network" systems.

I came across the following prod-
uct while searching for a system to
fulfill our needs. It's a Winchester
mass-storage system with up to 84
megabytes of formatted disk space
that can be shared by up to 16
users. It's manufactured by Space

Coast Systems, 301 South Washington
Avenue, Titusville, FL 32796, (305)
268-0872. I'd like to know if you have
any plans to review mass-storage/mul-
tiplexor systems like this one.

The introduction of RAM boards
has allowed Apple Computer and
third-party developers to create larger,
more sophisticated applications. How-
ever, there must be a place to store
the output of these packages. While in-
dividual hard disks solve one person's
problems, they aren't the most cost-ef-
fective solution for groups of users.

Jeffrey K. Ekstein

Department of Anatomy

Boston University School of Medicine

Research Building, Room 1014

80 East Concord Street

Boston, MA 02118

No doubt the llGS' AppleTalk will
stimulate interest in networking and
smaller shared-resource solutions such
as yours. We'll stay alert for possible
review coverage, but remember that
the majority of our readers are solitary
Apple users. (Readers: What do you
think?) —eds.

Japanese Spoken Here

Do you know of any Apple lie soft-
ware for learning either written or spo-
ken Japanese? I'd be interested in
knowing how much such a package
would cost and where I can get it.

Frederick S. Vassie
8821 Tidesebb Court
Columbia, MD 21045

We searched through all our re-
sources and found plenty of pro-
grams for learning Spanish, French,
German, Hebrew, Italian, and Russian,
but none for Japanese. Do any read-
ers know of such a program? —eds.

The Taxman

I'm the proprietor of a medium-
sized tax practice. When I bought my
Apple in 1982, I also purchased a
software package called Tax Manager,
produced by Micro Lab of Skokie, Illi-
nois. This year when I applied for an
update of the software, I found that
Micro Lab is no longer in business.

I won't be in business long enough
(I plan to retire in a few years) to jus-
tify getting all new hardware to run
more sophisticated tax software, so
I'd like to know if any software com-
pany has a program similar to Tax
Manager. Tax Manager ran on my
Apple II Plus, computed and printed
14 forms, and was very easy to use.

John J. Ritz
P.O. Box 337

West Long Branch, NJ 07764

Check our article "Tax Time Can
Mean Returns" (April 1986, p. 44), for
a comparative review of seven tax-
preparation packages. One of these
programs should suit your needs.

— &ds.

In Search Of

I'm searching for genealogy soft-
ware that's compatible with an Apple
lie computer. Can you help me
with this?

Roxwell Prejean
Route 1, Box 1548
Abbeville, LA 70510

Check out our June 1986 New
Products section. "Roots" (p. 1 12) is
a description of Personal Ancestral
File, a genealogical record-keeping
program from Ancestral File Operation
Unit. Also take a look at "Trace Your
Roots with AppleWorks" in this issue
(p. 106). —eds.

Still Waiting

I'm wondering if you know any-
thing about the word processor Multi-
Scribe and the company that
produces it, StyleWare. You ran its ad-
vertisement in the April and May
1986 issues of inCider.

The introductory offer for Mufe-
Scribe was listed in the Apr! issue at
$39.95. The May issue reported I as
$59.95. The $39.95 sounded fee a
good deal to me, so I ordered i on
March 11th. Since then, I've heard
nothing— the only response rw re-
ceived so far is my canceled check.
It cleared the bank within a week of
my order. The company has my
money; I have nothing.

1966

A Strange Woman Wants to Marry You.

An unknown man is
trying to kill you. The
State of Texas wants
you for murder. But
that's not your
problem. Your
real problem
is...

It's a new text adventure that
feels like a Hitchcock-style
nightmare. You're lost on the
streets of Manhattan with no
money, no friends, no mem-
ory—and someone wants you
dead. Somewhere in The City
are the clues to your identity
—and your survival. The hard
part is finding them— and
eliminating your problems
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I put off calling customer support,
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Then, less than two weeks from the
day I got the program, I received a
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The update was free and the bug
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The Word Is Out

I purchased SpellWorks from Ad-
vanced Logic Systems in February of
this year, and after using it only about
a dozen times, lost the program. I've
been attempting for months now to
get ALS to replace it— with absolutely
no success.

At one point, ALS called and
asked me to return the faulty disk,
which I promptly did. I was assured I
would receive a replacement, which
has never been sent. I've written sev-
eral letters, trying to determine the
status of my disk, but my correspon-
dence hasn't been acknowledged.

I've since purchased other pro-
grams that perform the spelling and
mail-merge functions (without leaving
AppleWorks, I might add) SpellWorks
handled, but I'm still out $50 for the
original purchase.

I think it's time software users sent
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vice your products or take them off
the market, because nobody is going
to buy them. Fortunately, there are
quality magazines like inCider that
support their readers and guide them
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software publishers.

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Action with AppleWorks

Your response to Roser Salavert
(Letters, July 1986, p. 8) indicated
that AppleWorks could print only one
label across, not three as he was
hoping. But I've found that with a lit-
tle outside help, AppleWorks can be
made to print three labels across.

Type in the category information
for all records of the data base as
described in the article ("Customer
Mailing Labels with AppleWorks,"
March 1986, p. 54), and store it in a
temporary ASCII file. To do this, press
open apple-P, and choose option 3
on the report menu to create a new
label format. Then enter a name for
the new report. When Report Format
appears, don't bother to change the
categories. Go on by pressing open
apple-P; select the ASCII file (option
4) rather than your printer. Enter a
pathname for your file and print the
data base to the temporary ASCII file
on disk.

Return to the main menu and cre-
ate a new file for the data base. For
categories per record, enter the num-

ber that's three times what you need
for each label (24 categories instead
of eight, for example). Type the path-
name for the temporary ASCII file
you've just created, then name your
new data base Three. Names-

Press open apple-P to bring up the
report menu. Create a new "labels"
format, and name the report Labels.
When Report Format appears, move
the categories so that the twee labels
contained in the 24 categories of the
first record will be arranged properly
across the top of the page (eight
categories per label). When you've ar-
ranged the categories with the appro-
priate spacing and selected your
printer options, you're ready to print.

This method may sound compli-
cated, but it's really quite simple. The
added convenience of printing three
labels across is well worth the few
extra steps.

Judith Classen
1615 La Cabra Drive
Albuquerque, NM 87123

Grading with AppleWorks

My mother, a high-school English
teacher, and I have been using
AppleWorks to calculate grades for
the past year. Listing the students'
names down, as suggested in "Mak-
ing the Grade with AppleWorks" (Au-
gust 1986, p. 63), rather than across
isn't very convenient. When you add a
few grades, the grades for one student
are spread across many screens. When
you try to print a listing of grades, it
becomes difficult to tell what a certain
student earned on any particular test.

If you put the students' names
across the top of the screen and list
the tests down, the spreadsheet is
easier to understand -after it's printed.
Each student's grades appear on a
single sheet, instead of spread over
many. Also, if you want to make a
copy of the column with the list of
grades on the left side of the page,
it's easier to tell how a student
earned the final grade he or she
received.

Chris Gallagher
7627 Chatham Road
Medina, OH 44256

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some serious errors. After reading the
article, I looked up the correct codes
in a manual. The following corrections
should be made:

Listing 1
0309: C9 C1

Listing 2

KYBD EQU $C000
0303: AD 00 CO
0308: 90 F9

Listing 3

KYBD EQU $C000
0303: AD 00 CO

Actually, this complaint gave me an
excuse to write and tell you how
much I enjoy inCider. I think it's the
best Apple II magazine published to-
day, and I often recommend it to new
members of our user group.

Michael Skroch
P.O. Box 5344
Madison, Wl 53705

REMember This

REM statements in programs aren't
always innocuous. I added the follow-
ing two lines to the program Flexi-
graph (March 1986, p. 52):

3 REM Flexigraph

5 REM inCider 3/86, p. 52

Then I typed in the balance of the
program and ran it. The program ran
to just before the graph plotting and
displayed "Undefined Statement Error
in 720."

The text advises readers to type in
lines 10 and 20, followed by CALL
-151. Without the 3 and 5 REM
statements, the machine-language dis-
play for lines 10 and 20 was the
same as the author's Listing 2. With
the 3 and 5 REM statements, the ma-
chine-language display was different.

I changed the REM statements in
lines 3 and 5 to 1500 and 1510
REM, and the program runs' perfectly.
Be forewarned that REM statements
may sometimes cause problems.

R.F. Heinzerling

145 Stonehouse Road

Glen Ridge, NJ 07028

Doctor in the House?

We appreciate your favorable re-
view of HouseCall (May 1986, p. 51),
but want to point out that your re-
viewer, Cynthia Field, made an error
when she implied that HouseCall
wasn't prepared by a medical doctor.

The program was indeed created un-
der the direction of Dr. Richard J.
Rosenbaum, M.D., who has been cer-
tified in pediatrics for ten years, and
was a general practitioner for four
years. Dr. Rosenbaum is head of our
medical-research staff.

Other generalists and internists par-
ticipated in reviewing HouseCall as it
was being written. Each of the more
than 400 information screens on med-
ical topics was written specifically for
HouseCall by a physician. Your re-
viewer also neglected to mention the
interactive nature of HouseCall, which
sets it apart from a typical medical-
reference manual.

We understand how this error may
have come about, as we had no
communication with Ms. Field about
HouseCall. In general, I'm certain this
is the fairest way for a writer to review a
product, to eliminate prejudice and ad-
vertising pressure. We feel inCider and
its editorial staff are top-notch.

David J. Lester, President

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P.O. Box 4783

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Easy BASIC Editing

I've found a way to use the
AppleWorks word processor for edit-
ing BASIC programs. Once the word
processor is set up, type in the pro-
gram. The lines don't have to be in
order, and the spacing doesn't matter.
When you're finished, type this line:
INPUT A$:GOTO

Then press open apple-P as if you
were going to print the file. Select op-
tion 3, Print to a text (ASCII) file. Then
get into Applesoft by typing EXEC
filename at the prompt. The computer
reads the file, and brackets start mov-
ing up the screen. After a few sec-
onds or more, depending on the
length of the program, get rid of line
zero, type LIST, and your program is
ready to use, just as if it had been
created in Applesoft.

Aaron Reeves
P.O. Box 447
Simla, CO 80835

Pascal Bugs

As a Pascal instructor, I've been
following your Pascal Primer series
with great interest. I enjoy finding ma-
terials other than manuals and text-
books that discuss Pascal
programming.

In "Facts on Filer: Part 4" (Febru-
ary 1986, pp. 76-86) the author de-
scribed a bug in the Pascal compiler.
Let me describe a bug in the article.

The article says the declaration
TYPE

TWENTYREALS = ARRAY [20 . 40] OF
REAL;

sets up a frame of 20 cells each of
type real, hence the name TWENTY-
REALS. If it had been [21. .40], I
would certainly agree with you, as
subtracting 20 from the starting index
and the finishing index would give the
more familiar [1..20], which clearly
has 20 elements. The formula I use
with my students, the difference be-
tween the starting index and the fin-
ishing index plus one, shows that
your declaration involves 21 cells.

Please continue your interesting col-
umn on Apple Pascal. Perhaps you'd
consider writing an introductory col-
umn on Apple Fortran also.

Sharon Maggiore
29 Route 299 West
New Paltz, NY 12561

Tom Swan replies that you correctly
pointed out an error in the array dec-
laration in February's Pascal Primer.
The declaration should have read:
TYPE

TWENTYREALS = ARRAY [20..39] OF
REAL;

Thanks to you and your students for
finding the bug. —eds.

Integrated Teaching

Your education article "A Computer
For Every Student" (July 1986, p. 58)
raises some interesting questions con-
cerning the use of personal com-
puters in our schools. One question it
didn't raise, however, is why schools
and educators aren't planning to com-
bine the best hardware and software
and integrate it into existing and future
curricula. If this was done, the personal
computer could be used as a "support
tool" for learning. In your article, it ap-
peared that schools were choosing to
decide who and what is best

I know educators have been work-
ing hard to fit good hardware and
software together into an interactive
scheme. They're taking Seymour Pap-

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ert's, Tom Snyder's, Broderbund's,
Apple's, and Springboard's programs,
along with printers, modems, graphics
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combining them with other rich edu-
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Software Suggestions

I'm writing in response to your arti-
cle "What's Going Wrong in Class-
room Software?" I'm constantly looking
for various kinds of software to use in
my high-school Introduction to Data
Processing course, but there's no
way our school district can afford so
many disks for such short-term use.

Fortunately, our regional consortium
is located within our building, as is
the district software library. When I
borrow materials from those sources, I
tell my classes they can use the soft-
ware for the week or two I've checked
them out. I always get the comment
that "Joe" has a copy program, or
that since I teach such a class I
should certainly be able to copy the
programs. I try to explain that if stu-
dents are allowed to copy programs,
it's like telling them it's okay to cheat
on tests or copy homework.

You hit the nail on the head when
you mentioned that budget constraints
and class size compound the prob-
lem. It's difficult with today's teenag-
ers to expect the majority of the class
to "keep busy" while I'm explaining
application software to a small group.
Since some of your staff seem to be

former teachers, they'll probably re-
member that students don't follow di-
rections particularly well without help.

I hope software publishers won't
curtail producing good educational
programs. Perhaps some of the fol-
lowing suggestions can help:

1) Furnish at least one back-up copy
with each program purchased, or al-
low one back-up copy to be made as
part of the program configuration. I
don't mind buying software, but I
cringe whenever my "only copy" is
momentarily out of my sight.

2) Publish software that has short
projects— particularly in word proces-
sors, data bases, and spread-
sheets—where the documentation is
on a driver disk and students can
save their results to another disk. This
is probably one of my biggest needs.

3) Publish educational versions of
some of the leading programs with
simple documentation. MECC, Sun-
burst, and South-Western Publishing
are doing this to some extent, but
more needs to be done.

4) Some excellent educational games
available at the elementary level need
to be expanded to the high-school
level, or have the age level on the
packaging removed. Some elementary
programs challenge some of my high-
school students, but they don't relate
to them if they think they're for
younger children.

I wish I had a concrete answer to
the problem. It's frustrating for dedi-
cated teachers to try to meet the
needs of an entire class. Teachers'
salaries don't allow for extensive pur-
chase of these kinds of materials for
classroom use— even with some of
the tax breaks in the past. School dis-
tricts must be allowed to purchase
multiple copies of inexpensive soft-
ware with copying rights or some
other arrangement so teachers can
use them freely. Otherwise, students
will miss out on many excellent com-
puting experiences, and students are
why most of us are in the classroom.

Cindy Davies

Business-Education Department
Lamphier High School
Springfield, IL 62704

Backing Up

I completely agree with your staff's
contentions in "What's Going Wrong
in Classroom Software?" (August
1986, p. 56). Teachers who illegally
copy educational software should be

arrested as the criminals they are. But
I believe the article failed to address
one critical point: Teachers not only
have a right, but a need to back up all
their software for archival purposes.

The school computer lab is a com-
pletely different environment from the
home or office. One teacher has to
supervise as many as 24 students
with computers and software disks.
Those inquisitive, inexperienced hands,
coupled with the reality of vandalism,
take a terrible toll on school computer
programs. Our school department
spent thousands of dollars replacing
crashed disks before we initiated a
system of archival backups.

The disk-replacement programs
many publishers offer may be fine for
the home user, but schools can't wait
four weeks for replacements. For soft-
ware to be effective, it must be used in
its proper place in the curriculum— not
four weeks later. Therefore, it's critical
that schools buy software they can
back up and replace immediately.

I suggest these rules for software
management:

1) Software should be selected by
classroom teachers with regard to
specific placement in the curriculum.

2) The school should buy one copy
of the program to find out if it can be
backed up. (We're not experts and
still find programs we can't back up.)

3) Find alternative software if a pro-
gram can't be copied.

4) Acquire a site license if possible.

5) Failing this, buy enough copies for
all the computers in the lab.

6) Make enough copies for the lab
and put the originals in a safe place.

George Poli
8 Jean Drive
Seekonk, MA 02771

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regarding articles, letters, or other top-
ics of interest. We reserve the right to
edit letters for clarity, style, and
space. Please address your corre-
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CORRECTION

In our September 1986 issue, the
price of T & W Systems' CAD pro-
gram was listed incorrectly on
p. 70. T & W offers an entry-level
version of the package for $99.95;

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To Russia, with Apples

When Marilyn Forstchen
first saw the global-politics
simulation The Other Side
(Tom Snyder Productions,
123 Mount Auburn Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138,
617-876-4433), she thought
taking it to the U.S.S.R.
would be a great idea:
"What better way to play it
than with Soviet students?"

Last April, Marilyn
Forstchen and her hus-
band, Bill, did just that.
They put together a group
of 77 students and teach-
ers from nine Maine high
schools and junior high
schools. They brought

along an Apple lie and set
out on a very special field
trip— a ten-day tour of the
Soviet Union. They spent
one day at Moscow School
#45 playing The Other
Side.

All Bill Forstchen's pre-
conceptions about Soviet
education dissolved when
he arrived at the school.
"[The Russian students]
were all absolutely fasci-
nated with computers," he
says. They were as enthu-
siastic as American students
are about their computers,
he adds.

A team of Soviet stu-
dents and a team of Ameri-
can students played The
Other Side for a couple of
hours. It was "the center-

piece of the trip," Forstchen
recalls. "It was wonderful to
see their children and our
children working around the
computer."

The Soviets are making
"a genuine effort to orient
students to the microcom-
puter generation," reports
Forstchen. In addition, he
says, they're producing Ap-
ple-compatible computers in
the Soviet Union and Bul-
garia. Forstchen notes he
was able to run The Other
Side on one of the Russian
clones, as well as on the
lie the Americans had
brought over.

"The computer provided
a medium for discussion,"
Forstchen says, with the
computer as the kids' com-
mon language. They started
talking about computers,
then branched off into per-
sonal things— and even
traded clothing. It was "a
wonderful example of how
our children can work to-
gether," he adds. "The So-
viets truly want American
kids going over there to
meet their children."

When the Americans
were finished, they left the
Apple lie and a copy of The
Other Side as gifts for their
Russian friends. Forstchen's
goal now is to arrange an-
other round of The Other
Side, via modem, with the
students of Moscow School
#45 playing against the stu-
dents from Maine— just as
the next session of the
U.S. -Soviet summit meet-
ings is taking place. — L.L.

Students'
Winning Ideas

Finding homes for un-
wanted animals, teaching
senior citizens how to use
computers, writing a voice-

synthesis program, and de-
veloping a mythology cur-
riculum were some of the
winning ideas students en-
tered in Apple Computer
Clubs International's (ACCI)
Competition '86.

First-prize winners re-
ceived Apple computers
and an all-expense-paid trip
to Washington, D.C., from
June 28 through July 1.
Apple co-founder Steve
Wozniak presented certifi-
cates to the winners. Stu-
dents were also given an
opportunity to exhibit their
projects, attend computer
workshops, and get in a lit-
tle sightseeing.

The competition was di-
vided into four categories:
Community Service, BASIC
Programming, Computers in
the Curriculum, and
Judges' Choice. Prizes
based on a project's useful-
ness, need for team coop-
eration, and overall excel-
lence were awarded in
each category at elemen-
tary, middle, and high-
school levels.

"We wanted to encour-
age positive use of personal
computers and recognize
excellence in the use of
personal computers," says
ACCI Director John Mar-
velle. Entries in the Com-
puters in the Curriculum
and Community Service di-
visions were especially cre-
ative, Marvelle says, while
entries in the BASIC Pro-
gramming and Judges'
Choice categories were di-
verse and educational.

Jim Martin, a student at
William Kelley High School
in Silver Bay, Minnesota,
says the Washington week-
end was interesting: "We
got to see the monuments,
had a picnic in front of the
Jefferson Memorial, and
rode paddleboats." Jim
won the Secondary BASIC

November 1986

Programming award for his
voice-synthesis program. He
spent six months develop-
ng it; according to most
people who've heard it, he
says, it sounds robotic and
"as a Finnish accent. Jim,
who is now in tenth grade,
says he'd like to be a pilot
or work for a software com-
oany. First, however, he
plans to enter next year's
competition. His proposed
entry? A speech-recognition
card, so that he can talk
back to his new Apple.

The Worcester County
School, in Berlin, Maryland,
won the Elementary Com-
munity Service Project
award for helping to find
homes for unwanted ani-
mals. The school estab-
lished a computerized data
base and used a word pro-
cessor to compose letters,
newsletters, and posters to
reach the community.

Other entries included
such projects as a "Presi-
dential Trivia" game, an as-
sembly-language program
that teaches differential cal-
culus, a maze game, a stu-
dent-organized effort to put
vocational-rehabilitation is-
sues on the local ballot,
and the development of
separate curricula on bears,
art, and ancient Greece
and Rome.

Runners-up in the contest
were awarded Apple com-

puters and ACCI merchan-
dise packets. Fifty-one
semifinalists were also
named; they received cop-
ies of AppleWorks and Apple
Logo 2, and the merchan-
dise packages.

Wozniak, who talked
about the use of Apple
computers, and Tom Sny-
der, president of Tom Sny-
der Productions, a software-
development firm, headed
the two main workshops.

Marvelle describes the
long weekend as a "smash-
ing success." He adds,
"Everyone was treated like
royalty, and I received noth-
ing but positive comments."

ACCI supports more than
10,000 clubs for students in
kindergarten through high
school. The groups receive
educational information and
project ideas from Apple
and are under the direction
of a volunteer adviser. For
more information about
forming an Apple Computer
Club or about Competition
'87, contact John Marvelle,
Director of Apple Computer
Clubs International, 175 Mid-
dlesex Turnpike, Bedford,
MA 01730, (800) 343-1425.

—B.J.

New Developments
in Home Control

The home-control and

automation industry is ex-
pecting new products and
the adoption of industry-
wide standards to help "fu-
turize" the average Ameri-
can home.

Mitsubishi announced in
early July that CyberLynx
(4828 Sterling Drive, Boul-
der, CO 80301 , 303-444-
7733) will assist in its devel-
opment of an advanced
home-automation system,
which Mitsubishi says it
hopes to unveil at Janu-
ary's National Home Build-
er's Show in Dallas, Texas.
The Cyprus, California-
based Mitsubishi is cur-
rently marketing home-auto-
mation systems in Japan
and says it intends to use
CyberLynx's technological
ability to help design a sys-
tem that will be better
suited for the United States
market. Another company
is expected to be named to
participate in the effort,
says Neal Tenhulzen, man-
ager of Home Automation
Systems for Mitsubishi.

According to Mitsubishi,
the systems will be able to
integrate home control, tele-
communications, security,
entertainment, and energy
management. A complete
package, with features such
as intercoms, video routing,
and remote access by tele-
phone, will cost about
$5000 to $6000, says Ten-
hulzen. The system will be
designed for installation in
existing homes, although
new homes could benefit if
a sufficient number of tele-
phone and video jacks are
installed during construc-
tion. Tenhulzen anticipates
that the system will have an
RS-232 port and will be
able to interface to most
home computers.

CyberLynx will continue
to market its current home-
control system, SmartHome,
which will serve the lower

end of the market, says
company official John
Antonchick. (See "Let Apple
Take Control," p. 92 in this
issue, for a discussion of
SmartHome and six other
systems.)

To better develop the
home-automation market,
the Electronic Industries As-
sociates (EIA) has formed
three committees to recom-
mend standard communica-
tion methods for connecting
home-control devices. One
committee is focusing on
infrared technology, used in
single-room communication,
another on wired buses,
which are usually installed in
new houses, and the third on
power-line buses, used to
communicate through a

home's existing electrical
and telephone wiring. Most
major U.S. electronics and
home-appliance manufactur-
ers and most Japanese
electronics firms are in-
volved in the committees,
Tenhulzen reports.

According to Jack Frances,
General Electric's general
manager of product engi-
neering for the home-con-
trol products division, the
industry is pushing for a
standard now because of
increasing market pressure.
General Electric began the
move toward standardiza-
tion about one and a half
years ago when it pro-
posed a standard protocol
for use in electrical wiring

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and other media used to
connect electronic devices.

Although the standards
committees have yet to
make any official recom-
mendations, Tenhulzen
notes that the protocol Mit-
subishi will use is sup-
ported by several individual
companies and that his firm
won't wait for the commit-
tees' reports: "We're going
to take the ball and run
with it." —B.J.

Spanning the Globe

You may think of Na-
tional Geographic as a col-
orful, slightly dry fixture in
magazine racks in doctors'
offices, but the Washington,
D.C. -based National Geo-
graphic Society has char-
tered an expedition into the
Apple computing world.
Students should be using
National Geographic soft-
ware soon, and a three-way
partnership among the soci-
ety, Apple Computer, and
the whiz-bang technicians
at Lucasfilm promises to
accelerate the arrival of
learning via videodisc and
compact disc.

The Geographic has pro-
duced educational films
and filmstrips and the chil-
dren's magazine World for
many years. Now, David
Beacom, copy editor for
educational media, says,
"We've embarked on pro-
duction of computer soft-
ware that'll be coming out
in the spring of [1987 and
will be] more dependable
and visual than existing ed-
ucational software."

By "dependable," Bea-
com explains, "the content
will be better tied to curric-
ulum material and be care-
fully researched." As for
visuals, the Society hopes
hi-res graphics will catch
teachers' eyes in the
crowded school software
market: "We're not trying to
do in software what can
better be done in print, and
vice versa." Those graph-
ics, by the way, will (at

least initially) appear on the
II Plus, lie, and lie; Bea-
com doesn't rule out the
possibility of Hgs programs,
but "probably not in this
[product] line."

Past that, he adds,
"we're really just begin-
ning" on the joint venture
with Apple and Lucasfilm,
designed to explore the
use of optical storage tech-
nologies in education. Ap-
ple Chairman John Sculley
has described the collabora-
tion as "a unique opportunity
to learn how combined tech-
nologies and media can en-
hance the educational
process."

"We're all interested in
seeing what each institution
can contribute [to the part-
nership]," Beacom says.
"Obviously, each has differ-
ent strengths— Lucasfilm
would theoretically provide
the production experience,
Apple the computing exper-
tise, and we would provide
visual and editorial guid-
ance—but so far the way
it's going is that everyone
has had something to con-
tribute in every aspect.
We've been lucky in that
regard."

The Society is in the
same boat as other publish-
ers in terms of waiting for
computer-video mergers to
become practical and af-
fordable for a mass market.
"Obviously every computer
manufacturer is working on
that; they have these meet-
ings and talk in hushed
tones [about future prod-
ucts]," Beacom says.
"From our standpoint, the
sooner the better; since
we're an educational pub-
lisher, our interest is getting
as much as possible that's
visually arresting into the
classroom." —E.G.

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news of the Apole world. If
you're making news, send
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ProDOS and AppleWorks

I have a group of Bank Street
Writer files I'd like to convert to Apple-
Works files. I've been able to change
them from DOS 3.3 to ProDOS, but the
AppleWorks system won't accept
them. Is it because DOS 3.3 files are
binary and ProDOS' are system files?
What's the solution?

Jim Wright
Murietta, CA

AppleWorks has its own unique op-
erating system— it's not exactly ProDOS,
but it's close. If you convert DOS 3.3
to ProDOS, you're halfway to your
goal. You simply have to use the
ProDOS files as data, and "Add Files
to the Desktop" from the AppleWorks
Main Menu. Go with the "Make a
New File for the Word Processor"
and "From a Text (ASCII) File" op-
tion. You'll need to know the file's
complete ProDOS pathname. Put the
file on your desktop and save it to
disk— it's now in AppleWorks format.

Noise Pollution

I recently purchased an Apple lie
system and seem to be having trou-
ble with my DuoDisk. Whenever it
starts formatting a disk it makes a ,
loud noise— much like my truck when
I try to shift gears without using the
clutch. It does so only in the format-
ting stage and doesn't return any er-
ror messages; the disks are indeed
formatted afterward. Should I get this
repaired while the system is under
warranty, or is this noise characteristic
of the DuoDisk?

Dennis Davidson
Hearne, TX

/ like the Apple UniDisk 3.5 be-
cause it holds 800K and it's quiet.
DuoDisks make a lot of noise when
formatting— for that matter, they

scream when simply saving data or
converting DOS to ProDOS. I don't
know the source of the racket-
maybe Apple made formatting raucous
to remind us that it's a brutal process
that destroys everything in its path.

Color Questions and Memory

I'm an electronics engineer, but I'm
still confused: What will an RGB moni-
tor do for my Apple? Will I simply see
the same colors more sharply, with
less color smearing, or is there more
to it? With a composite video monitor,
lines in my graphs change colors or
break into rainbows at the corners.
Will RGB help?

R. Schneider
Sierra Vista, CA

Why is it that Apple hues aren't all
that hot compared to, say, the IBM
PC's or Commodore Amiga's? Is it
my Apple Color Monitor 100/Applied
Engineering RGB Card combination? I
find in particular that Apple red
seems to come out more a washed-
out brown than the true bright red
seen on other systems.

D.P. March
Honolulu, HI

Wise readers, you have clear heads
and clear vision, too. Apple RGB
colors are bad, and red is the worst.
The difference between RGB and
composite color is that the former is
sent by three separate signals to your
monitor, while the latter is a single
stream of information about all colors.
Apple H's send only that single com-
posite stream— that's why you need
an RGB card to separate red, green,
and blue if you want to use an RGB
monitor. The color loses a lot in trans-
lation—that explains the weak red.

You can see differences in color
quality, though, when you use differ-
ent RGB cards— you'd need an un-
derstanding, patient Apple dealer to
let you do that kind of shopping
around.

But there's hope for Apple RGB.
The new Apple Hgs has built-in RGB
output— analog RGB, which offers true
colors and a greater range of hues.

Wrong Reference

I'm currently writing a program for
a school that uses 80-column firm-
ware on its Apple lie's. I recently pur-
chased the Apple lie Reference
Manual, which includes the system-
Monitor and 80-column-firmware list-
ings. I had no trouble finding the lo-
cations of the subroutines I needed in
the manual listings, but when I disas-
sembled the 80-column firmware
($C000-$CFFF) on my machine, I dis-
covered that it was totally different
from those listings.

I know that the enhanced lie con-
tains new video ROM's: Does this in-
clude the 80-column firmware? The
dealer from whom I bought the manual
told me this was the only Apple publi-
cation with the ROM listings and had
no idea how I could get updated ones.

J.R. Bork

Mechanicsburg, PA

Does your dealer still have an Ap-
ple I for sale? He needs updating as
badly as your manual. Apple's 80-col-
umn firmware is one major difference
between the old and new Monitors.
You can find the enhanced video firm-
ware listed in the Apple lie Reference
Manual: Volume 2 (Apple part
#A2L4030) or the Apple //c Technical
Reference Manual (#030- 1238- A). The
latter is published by Addison-Wesley
Publishing Company, 6 Jacob Way,
Reading, MA 01867, (617) 944-3700.
It's available in bookstores or can be
ordered from the publisher if not in
stock.

Music in His Soul

I want to generate electronic music
signals with my Apple II Plus. Is there
some address to which I could write
bytes that would directly affect the
voltage on a pair of contacts? Also, is
there a company that makes periph-
eral cards that will let my computer
send and receive MIDI (Musical In-
strument Digital Interface) signals?

Jim Worden
Naples, FL

Four 1-bit outputs called annuncia-
tors affect the 16-pin game-l/O con-
nector on an Apple II (see the Table).

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APPLE CLINIC

Table. Annunciator memory locations (reproduced with permission of Apple Com-
puter from the Apple lie Technical Reference Manual, Addison-Wesley, Reading,
MA, 1985, p. 40).

Annunciator

Address

Number

State

Decimal

Hex

off

49240

-16296

SC058

49241

-16295

$C059

off

49242

-16294

$C05A

49243

-16293

SC05B

off

49244

-16292

$C05C

49245

-16291

$C05D

off

49246

- 16290

$C05E

49247

-16289

$C05F

Pin numbers listed are for the 16-pin IC connector on the circuit board.

Each annunciator is controlled by a
soft switch. If the soft switch is off,
the voltage at the corresponding pin
on the game connector is very nearly
zero; turn the switch on and it jumps
to almost 5 volts. I'm no musician, but
I figure that would give you a range of
only four notes— great if you're com-
posing for the Ramones, but your
tastes may be more demanding.

Roland Corporation (7200 Dominion
Circle, Los Angeles, CA 90040-3647,
213-685-5141) sells MIDI boards for
Apples; it also publishes an electronic-
music magazine that may help. Musi-
cian: Player and Listener (Amordian
Press, P.O. Box 701, 31 Commercial
Street, Gloucester, MA 01930), a slick
rag for serious amateurs, has more
monthly MIDI madness. (Also be sure
to check out inCider's review of the
Roland MIDI Users Sequencer/Editor in-
terface and software in this issue, p. 42.)

Get Smart

Is there any way to make a
"smart" ProDOS catalog— that is, one
that lets you type catalog in 40 col-
umns, but switches automatically to
80 columns and prints a full catalog?
I know PEEKs and POKEs can ac-
complish this, but do you know of a
permanent addition?

Jeff Crown
Wichita, KS

When I type in a program, I usually
prefer to add or change some fea-
tures. This practice is complicated
when I use ProDOS, because I can't
find a method or ProDOS routine for
renumbering. Can it be done?

SSG Rick Laws
Fort Ord, CA

The second thing beginning ProDOS
programmers should do— after sub-
scribing to inCider— is to call or write
Beagle Bros (3990 Old Town Avenue,
Suite 102C, San Diego, CA 92110,
619-296-6400), get the latest catalog,
and buy everything you can afford.
The third step is to call the former
Beagle Brothers at The Software Touch
(9842 Hilbert Street, Suite 192, San
Diego, CA 92131, 619-549-3091).

For automatic 80-column catalogs,
try Big U, the ProDOS Utility Disk by
Randy Brandt of Beagle Bros ($34.95).
Its nifty Key-Cat 80 routine turns Con-
trol-Reset into an instant 80-column
command. For BASIC renumbering
and a whole lot more, get ahold of
Program Writer (see Editors' Choice,
June 1986, p. 120), $49.95 from The
Software Touch.

It Couldn't Be Done

I hear that Apple Computer is com-
ing out with a 16-bit Apple II with a
megabyte of RAM. If I get a Ram-
Works II with 1 megabyte and a 16-
bit card, can I make my lie compati-
ble with the IIgs? Would I need
RamFactor with 1 megabyte and 16
bits? What about other cards? Should
I replace a few chips in the old lie?
Or is there no way to use software
written for the IIgs on my lie?

Andrew Quan
Hacienda Heights, CA

You can— you can buy Apple's IIgs
retrofit kit for your He. At press time,
Apple wouldn't tell me how much it
costs, but it'll be cheaper than buying
a new IIgs. Adding a 65816 micro-
processor and extra RAM won't do—
the 65816 and 6502 aren't "pin-com-
patible," which briefly means that you
can't plug one microprocessor into

November 1986

tie other's socket. The IIgs Monitor is
new. and most IIgs software makes
great use of the machine's special
Srmware routines.

But nothing is impossible— the folks
at Apple who created the IIgs built a
tabletop version of the new machine
torn old Apple II parts, new chips, and
tie trash from Steve Wozniak's garage.
\bu can build one, too, if you can find
tie chips. Keep in touch.

BBS Update

A number of readers have told us
ttey don't know how to log on to in-
Qder's 24-hour, cost-free bulletin-board
system (603-924-9801). It's easy.

Dial the number. Wait for your mo-
dem and communications software to
connect; the board works at 300 or
1200 baud. If you don't see a wel-
come message right away, hit the re-
turn key a couple of times or try
Control-C (this is one time when
banging on the keyboard may help).
You can write in 40 or 80 columns,
capitals or lowercase. The Apple de-
lete key also works.

A few questions follow. The first is
"What's your name?" Start with your
first name; don't bother with an alias
(we'll change it). When the BBS asks,
"Where are you calling from?" try to
get as much of your city and state as
you can into 20 characters. Your
phone number has to be in the form
111-111-1111.

Next, read this information and
okay it— you get several chances. If
you want your own password, type P
when prompted.

Your first BBS message will be di-
rected to me, the sysop, or system
operator. Include your name, age,
and phone number (your sex as well,
if your name isn't clearly male or fe-
male), and a description of your com-
puter and your background. One
reason for writing this first message is
to convince me to give you a high
access level, so think about what you
write. Your access level gives you the
power to up- and download programs
and send and receive messages.

To end your message, write done
on a separate line (no quotation

marks). Next up is the edit menu. If
the message is fine, type O for "okay,"
and the message is sent. If you need to
edit it, type a question mark.

Let me emphasize these two gen-
eral rules: If you need help, type a
question mark, and if you've finished
writing, type done. It's simple. We
hope to hear from you soon.

AppleWorks Wide

I'm using AppleWorks on an Apple
lie. I have a data base of about 1300
names, addresses, and so on, and
want to print labels in side-by-side
columns, two or three wide. Can this
be done?

Richard Nemeth
Greenwich, CT

Beagle Bros can do it. MacroWorks
(see Editors' Choice, August 1986, p.
1 12) offers more than macros: It fea-
tures a Multi-Columnizer that prints
AppleWorks word-processing files in
two or three columns. When you cre-
ate a report, print in label format to

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APPLE CLINIC

the clipboard, then hurry into a new
word-processing document. Copy tht
data from the clipboard into your
word-processor file and use Macro-
Works' Multi-Columnizer to print two
or three columns.

If that seems like too much work,
why not write a macro with Macro-
Works that does it all in one key-
stroke?

Also see "Action with AppleWorks"
in this issue's Letters column, p. 10,
for an alternate method submitted by
one of our readers.

Disk, Disk

I've been having trouble with my
copy-protected disks— either they
won't load or they self-destruct. I'm
told the problem is my DuoDisk drive
but I've had my DuoDisk serviced thre«
times and the problem still exists.

Joseph Porrini
Trenton, NJ

I've recently experienced problems
with my copy-protected software and
DuoDisk. The manufacturer wrote me
that Apple had discovered faulty com-
ponents in the DuoDisk. Can you ex-
plain the problem, how to detect it,
and what one might be able to do at
home to correct it?

Terry L. Fletcher
Grants, NM

Jeff Belding, Apple's disk-drive-
product manager, tells us that all
DuoDisks shipped after October 29,
1984, have been fixed, but that it's
possible you have older ones. If so,
you can replace them free of charge.

The problem is the timing of the file
formatter. In older Apple disk drives,
the tolerances aren't as tight as they
are in the new DuoDisk, which re-
quires that everything be timed per-
fectly. Older DOS 3.3 copy-protected
software and even some early ProDOS
programs don't keep time well
enough to meet the DuoDisk 's exact-
ing standards.

If you bought your DuoDisk in
1984 and it's eating copy-protected
disks, you probably have a faulty
DuoDisk. If you can't remember when
you bought your DuoDisk, or you
bought it secondhand, you may have
a defective DuoDisk: Does it run
newer ProDOS software easily, but
choke on older DOS 3.3? Either way,
you can't do a thing about it— take
the offending DuoDisk to an autho-
rized Apple dealer and demand your
rights. ■

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November 1986

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Pasadena

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Orange

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Montclair

(714) 624-3531
Menlo Park

(415) 322-2871
San Jose

(408) 281-4977
Lawndale

(213) 214-1416
Los Angeles

(213) 477-1577
La Mesa

(619) 462-5747
Brea

(714) 990-9373
Huntington Beach

(714) 848-8093
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Concord

Home Computing Centers
Mill Valley

(415) 388-1407
San Leandro

(415) 352-5030
San Bruno

(415) 588-1201
Shoreline Software
Sacramento

(916) 481-2412
Software Central
Pasadena

(818) 793-4101

Software Centre International
Santa Ana

(714) 641-0332
Software City
San Diego

(619)560-6886
Software Plus
Citrus Heights

(916) 726-8793
Sysware
San Diego

(619) 278-8660
The Software Place
Fairfield

(707) 427-2104

Colorado

Contemporary Comp.
Denver

(303) 692-0937
CW Electronics
Denver

(303) 832-1111
DMA Computer Solutions
Colorado Springs

(303) 475-2488
Renaissance Computerware
Colorado Springs

(303) 634-3051
Software Center
Englewood

(303) 799-8833

Connecticut

Computer Resources
Wetfiersfield

(203) 563-9000
Electronics Boutique
Danbury
Softown
Danbury

(203) 797-8080

District of Columbia

Program Store
Washington
(202) 863-1947

Florida

Electronics Boutique
Boynton Beach

(305) 736-2308
Miami

(305) 251-5517
Games 'N' Gadgets
Jacksonville

(904) 725-7026
Clearwater

(813) 797-0585
Orange Park

(904) 264-1550
Tallahassee

(904) 877-3813

Georgia

Academic Software
Rosweil

(404) 998-7766
Electronics Boutique
Atlanta

(404) 433-0197
Atlanta

(404) 261-8305
Games 'N' Gadgets
Atlanta

(404) 399-5023
Atlanta

(404) 934-7794

Illinois

Aardvark Computer Software
Chicago Heights

(312) 481-5888
Babbages, Inc.
Northbrook

(312) 564-4830
Aurora

(312) 898-6070
Chicago

(312) 263-7613
Basic Software Shop
Midlothian

(312) 385-8435
Chicago Computer Centre
Chicago

(312) 372-7360

Computer Outpost
Schaumburg

(312) 980-0411
Computer Showroom
Barrington

(312) 382-5108
Computerworld
Chicago

(312) 282-1575
Disk N Tech Software
Orland Park

(312) 460-1060
Family Software
Bioomingdale

(312) 351-3730
Oakbrook Computer Center
Oakbrook

(312) 941-9005
Protecto Enterprises
Barrington

(312) 382-5244
Software First
Evanston

(312) 475-7337
Software Tree
Winnetka

(312) 446-1660
Universal Computing
Highland Park

(312) 433-8934
Video Etc.
Deerfield

(312) 498-9688

Indiana

Butrex
Ft. Wayne

(219) 485-7511
Computer Corner
Marion

(317) 662-7160
Computer Works
Carmel

(317) 848-0123

Louisiana

Electronics Boutique
Monroe

(318) 322-5813
Kenner

(504) 464-4130
Inacomp Computer Center
Lafayette

(318) 981-8122
The Computer Shoppe
Metalrie

(504) 454-6600

Clinton Computer
Clinton

(301) 856-2500
Laurel

(301) 953-1110
Electronics Boutique
Baltimore

(301) 298-9674
Owings Mills

(301) 363-6521
Baltimore

(301) 687-2909
Games tt Gadgets
Baltimore

(301) 256-7453
Baltimore

(301) 284-2873
Greetings and Readings
Towson

(301) 825-4225
Program Store
Kensington

(301) 984-1233

Massachusetts

Computer Magic
Sandwich

(617) 888-7313
Electronics Boutique
Holyoke

(413) 533-1766
Personal Computer Resource
Norwell

(617) 871-5396

Softpro
Burlington

(619) 273-2919
The Whiz Stores Inc.
Westborough

(617) 366-2030

Michigan

American Television
Marquette

(906) 228-7100
Computer Solutions
Mason

(517) 628-2943
Computers Today
Holland

(616) 399-8310
Soft-House Computer Center
Garden City

(313) 422-6760
Software Library of Keego
Keego Harbor

(313) 681-6600
Software Trends
Clawson

(313) 288-3280
The Software Shop
Troy

(313) 524-1581

Electronics Boutique
Ridgeland
(601)957-3732

Missouri

Games 'N' Gadgets
Columbia

(301)730-7402
Software City
Creve Coeur

(314) 434-3311
Software To Go
Clayton

(314) 727-3420
Crestwood

(314) 968-8700
The St. Louis Software Center
Maryland Heights

(314) 739-8989

Nebraska

Nebraska Bookstore
Lincoln
(402) 476-0111

Nevada

Computer World
Las Vegas

(702) 796-1379

New Hampshire

Electronics Boutique
Nashua
(603) 891-2222

New Jersey

Electronics Boutique
Cherry Hill
Rockaway

(201) 366-1636
Woodbridge

(201) 636-1451
Wayne

(201) 785-8710
Voorhees

(609) 772-6355
Family Computer Center
Fairfield

(201) 882-8370
S. Orange

(201) 762-6661
Games 'N' Gadgets
Livingston

(201) 992-6753
Burlington

(609) 387-3583
Micro Dynamics
Shrewsbury

(201) 747-6745
Simplex
Springfield

(201) 379-4729

New York

Byte Shop
Merrick
(516) 379-0000

Computer Software Plus
Brooklyn

(718) 645-1880
Electronics Boutique
Valley Stream
Albany

(518) 456-7270
Huntington Station

(516) 271-8385
Games 'N' Gadgets
Garden City

(516) 747-3427
Manuet

(914) 623-1723
Leigh's Computers
New York

(212) 879-6257
Software Center
Forest Hills

(718) 793-8112
Software City
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(315) 445-2577
The Software House
Fairport

(716) 223-7658

North Carolina

Byte Shop
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(919) 288-0018
Games 'N' Gadgets
Raleigh

(919) 781-9034
Software Express
Charlotte

(704) 372-9087

Ohio

Earthrise Micro Systems
Columbus

(614) 451-1100
Games 'N' Gadgets
North Randall

(216) 662-2998
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(419) 537-1887
Microcenter
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(614) 481-8041
Westerville

(614) 891-8041
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(513) 439-1237
Cincinnati

(513) 530-9311
Warehouse Computerware
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(513) 563-2983

Home Software
Oklahoma City

(405) 632-5721
Tulsa

(918) 254-1883

Egghead Software
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(503) 626-7331
Learning Service
Eugene

(503) 683-3827

Compumart
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(800) 233-8950
Computer and Games

(215) 929-0540
Electronics Boutique
Whitehall

(215) 264-3122
King of Prussia

(215) 337-4232
Exton

(215) 363-8357
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Games 'N' Gadgets
Lancaster

(717) 299-9504
West Mifflin

(412) 655-6804
King of Prussia

(215) 337-1298
Media

(215) 566-3948
Lyco Computers
Williamsport

(717) 494-1144
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(215) 435-2911
Software City
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(412) 854-1777
Tussey Computer
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White" House Computer
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Rhode Island

Software Connections
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Games 'N' Gadgets
Memphis
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B. Dalton Software Etc.
Houston

(713) 439-1045
Babbages, Inc.
Houston

(713) 955-3500
Houston

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Houston

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(713) 995-5758
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Dallas

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Fort Worth

(817) 294-1279
Irving

(214) 255-2129
Houston

(713) 469-5459

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Computer Galleries
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Computer Solutions
San Antonio

(512) 341-8851
Home Software
Friendswood

(713) 480-5426
Macproducts
Austin

(512) 473-2604
Software Centre
Houston

(713) 558-9750
Software and Things
Austin

(512) 451-4347
Software Centre
Houston

(713) 783-9857

Software City
Austin

(512) 451-2489
Software Galeria
San Antonio

(512) 377-3003
Software Station
Houston

(713) 782-7537
Houston

(713) 874-9696
The Computer Store
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(409) 297-5515
The Software Place
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(713) 781-1488

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Virginia

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Sharpen¥)ur Sailing Skills
Without Getting¥)ur FeetW^t.

Head for the Silicon Bay and be the
captain of your own keyboard.

In Mindscape's The American Challenge:
A Sailing Simulation? you'll learn to pilot an
Apple® lie or lie, IBM PC? or Commodore®
64/128 through eight challenging courses.

This wind-blown sailing simulation will
challenge and thrill beginners and old salts
alike. Race against the stiff competition
supplied inthe program. Challenge another
skipper head-to-head. Or race an opponent
via modem from coast-to- coast.

Complete the preliminaries and you'll
face the Aussies in the closest thing to a

real race for The Cup this side of Perth.

You may even win an expense-paid trip
to Perth, Australia and course-side seats to
watch the Yanks reclaim the America's Cup
next January. Runners-up will receive Hayes™
Modems. Contest details are inside every
package or available from your retailer.

Hoist a sail on your monitor. And sit
down at the keys. The American
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with a few i
short strokes.

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The American Challenge is $39.95 for Apple and IBM versions: $29.95 forC64/128.

Copyright © 1986 Mindscape. Inc. Mindscape is a trademark of Mindscape. Inc. Apple. IBM, and Commodore are registered trademarks of Apple Computer,
Inc., International Business Machines, and Commodore Electronics Limited respectively. Hayes is a trademark of Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc.

REVIEWS

MultiScribe; ProModem 1200A and
AppleMate; Tobacco and Fitness; Fleet
System 3; AutoWorks; MIDI Users
Sequencer/Editor; The Handlers; B-Sider

Write Like MacWrite

MULTISCRIBE

Stylemre, 6405 Hillcroft, Suite 201,
Houston, TX 77081

Word processor; 128K Apple lie or lie,
ProDOS
$59.95

Ease of learning
Ease of use
Documentation
Support
Overall

You don't need mousetext to have
a good mouse-driven word processor.
Styleware's innovative MultiScribe
blends full-featured editing power with
a Macintosh-like interface and the cre-
ative freedom of double hi-res graph-
ics, bringing the fun of MacWrite to
enhanced and unenhanced Apples
alike. You may be content with your
old word processor, but you can do
things with MultiScribe you simply can't
consider with any other program.

Its pixel-mapped graphics (as op-
posed to the mousetext characters
competing products use) make Multi-
Scribe as versatile on screen as it is
in dot-matrix printouts. Pull-down menus
provide a host of type fonts, styles, and
sizes— from bold to shadow, Chaucer
to Shakespeare— at the click of your
mouse or the press of a key. Ten
fonts come with MultiScribe; a sup-
plied FontEditor program lets you
stretch your creativity by designing
your own.

MultiScribe isn't perfect; some func-
tions are on the slow side, and the
early production version (1.02) I
tested had its share of omitted fea-
tures and system hiccups. Styleware,
however, promises needed improve-
ments for version 1.1 (shipping at
press time) and dazzling extras for
this fall's version 2.0, while keeping
MultiScribe a price/performance leader
at $59.95. (The program is not copy-
protected, and upgrades sell for $10
plus shipping.)

Conventional Weapons

While it's visually a MacWrite clone,
with commands arrayed in pull-down
menus from a menu bar at the top of
the screen, MultiScribe has ample

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cessing. Cut, copy, and paste com-
mands handle normal editing; a disk-
based clipboard lets you copy and
move text between documents easily.

Inset rulers allow complete flexibility
in setting margins, tabs, spacing, and
justification. (In an exception to Multi-
Scribe's "what you see is what you get"
policy, right, full, and center justification
don't appear on screen. Styleware
claims this is because of the slow
graphics speeds of the lie and lie.)

MultiScribe currently cannot gener-
ate a table of contents or index, nor
can it handle footnoting. Also missing
is the ability to print headers and foot-
ers, or to undelete words or sen-
tences when the clipboard isn't used (as
with AppleWorks, which can restore text
moved to the clipboard, but not text
erased by the delete command).

Editing is RAM-based with 30K (ap-
proximately 9-12 pages) reserved for
your document. Longer documents
can be created by chaining separate
files with a Print Merge command.

MultiScribe's impressive printed out-
put supports a wide variety of dot-ma-

trix printers (such as Epson, Okidata,
and C. Itoh as well as the Image-
Writer) and interface cards. When you
select Print from the File menu, a
dialog box opens to let you specify
high, standard, draft, or text quality.
Although they require the longest time
to print, the high and standard modes
produce crisp, dark characters. The
dialog box also handles page num-
bering, the number of copies desired,
and the range of pages to print. A
print job in progress can be can-
celled at any time.

If you're moving up from another
word processor, MultiScribe can read
and write ASCII text files. This feature
lets you customize your existing docu-
ments with new fonts and styles, or
transfer MultiScribe files to AppleWorks
or your favorite spelling checker.

A Mouse of a Different Color

A common criticism of mouse soft-
ware is that the mouse gets in the
way by taking your fingers from the

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Speed = Productivity

Imagine the productivity gains you'll achieve when your
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REVIEWS

keyboard. MultiScribe answers this
complaint with ease and power. While
programs like MacWrite define only a
few keyboard commands, MultiScribe
provides comprehensive equivalents of
nearly all its pull-down menu options.
You can use open-apple key combi-
nations to access nearly all menu op-
tions directly.

In fact, MultiScribe's could be the
best of all interfaces. For the novice
or infrequent user, the mouse and
menus guide you through the system.
Once you gain familiarity and experi-
ence with the program, keyboard
commands let you leave the mouse
behind.

The Joy of Fonts

Your own creativity comes into play
through the FontEditor program. Fonts
can be anything you can imagine—
from English script or foreign languages
to series of small pictures or logos.

Each font is measured in points,
each point equaling one pixel, or % 2
of an inch. Not coincidental^, most
matrix printers are designed to print
Ik-inch dots, yielding a one-to-one
mapping of display pixels to printout
dots. The maximum size of each
character in a font is 28 by 28 points.

Designing your own fonts is tedious
and time-consuming; it took me three
hours to create a complete 12-point
Chicago font. The results, however,
are well worth the effort. Once your
font is finished, the Style and Size
menus can embellish it in amazing
ways— bolding, italicizing, outlining, or
underlining any character you wish.
You can also magnify a character up
to three times normal size for use in
headlines, banners, or presentation
graphics.

The Dark Side

MultiScribe won't win any speed-
typing contests. It maintains an admi-
rable pace while editing new text, but
begins to tread water when inserting
text in the middle of an existing para-
graph. What you type may take a
moment or two to appear as the
graphics page is reformatted. Simi-
larly, while the pull-down menus unroll
and recoil instantly, the same can't be
said for scrolling a page up or down
or jumping to the beginning or end of
a long file. At those times you'll have
plenty of time to rest your fingers.

All things considered, these are tol-
erable slowdowns for me and are not
attributable to MultiScribe, but rather
the double hi-res graphics on the Ap-
ple itself. More serious were my test

version's signs of adolescence— nota-
bly, bugs when searching for or re-
placing text.

In any given document, some
strings were found and some weren't.
Worse yet were the unwanted
changes when text was found and
highlighted. Once the desired string
was automatically duplicated, and on
another occasion the entire system
hung, requiring a reboot.

I also experienced problems when
scrolling to the bottom of a large
(30K) document. Symptoms included
mangled graphics around the edge of
the editing window and a couple of
system crashes.

When I called Styleware with these
problems, I was impressed with its at-
tention and support. The company
was aware of the defects and immedi-
ately offered to send me a replace-
ment disk, saying that the bugs were
fixed in version 1.1 and that it was
company policy to replace all defective
copies with the most recent version.

Styleware also deserves compli-

ments for its well-written 260-page
manual. Emulating the MacWrite doc-
umentation, the book progresses from
an introductory "Learning MultiScribe"
tutorial to task-oriented "Using Multi-
Scribe" exercises, with specifics for
both mouse and keyboard commands.
Finally, a "MultiScribe Reference"
lists each menu and command in the
program.

Coming Attractions

Besides problem fixes, MultiScribe
1.1 includes a more Mac-like scroll
bar, a List Volumes command that
makes MultiScribe more of a disk or-
ganizer, and more flexibility in han-
dling fonts. Extra font disks are $19.95
each, including ten fonts and a pro-
gram similar to the Macintosh Font-
Mover to aid in installing and shuffling
character sets.

Version 2.0, planned for the fall of
1986, is slated to include a near-let-
ter-quality mode that works with cur-
rent dot-matrix printers, and a limited
form of macro functionality. Still more

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appealing are several accessory pro-
grams, priced at $29.95 each, that
will work with all MultiScribe versions.
One is a set of Mac-style desk acces-
sories, complete with calculator, calen-
dar, clock, puzzle, and control panel.
Another is a spelling checker.

The most desirable add-on should
be one called Picture Manager, which
will let MultiScribe realize its full po-
tential as a creative-writing tool— the
ability to merge graphics and text in
true Macintosh fashion, inserting
MousePaint or Dazzle Draw sketches

and diagrams into MultiScribe docu-
ments. Even my early copy of Multi-
Scribe impressed me enough to earn
three stars; with bugs ironed out and
such impressive enhancements due,
this would be a four-star review for sure.

MultiScribe is not just another word
processor. As well as any product to
date, it taps the full potential of Apple
graphics and opens a new door to
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Modem Cards:
Two of a Kind

PROMQDEM 1200A

Prometheus Products, 4545 Ousting
Parkway, Fremont, CA 94538
1200/300-baud intelligent-modem caret
Apple II, II Plus, lie
$295

APPLEMATE

Cermetek Microelectronics, 308 Borregas
Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94088
1200/300-baud intelligent-modem card;
Apple II, II Plus, lie
$295

ProModem AppleMate

Ease of setup
Ease of use
Documentation
Support
Overall

Telecommunications, the power to
link your Apple to a mainframe data
base or the micro next door, is get-
ting cheaper and easier all the time.
Prometheus' ProModem and Cerme-
tek's AppleMate are two moderately
priced cards that emulate the familiar
Apple Super Serial Card and Hayes
Smartmodem, combining plug-and-
play convenience with 1200-baud
communications. Each has strong and
weak points, but overall both are well-
built, well-documented choices for on-
line access.

I tested the modems in slot 2 of
my enhanced He, but they should
work equally well in older Apples.
Both functioned smoothly at 300 and
1200 baud, whether talking to local
bulletin boards or the University of
Massachusetts' VAX system.

ProModem 1200A

Many modems come bundled with
communications software, but the
ProModem 1200A has a terminal pro-

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gram right on the board. My test
model's built-in firmware was a no-
frills package that nevertheless made
it easy to change parameters such as
baud rates and parity settings, upload
and download ASCII files, or interact
with DOS 3.3. In addition, the 1200A
comes with a ProDOS disk-based
program called ProCom-A, which
combines communications features'
such as auto-dialing, log-on macros,
and XModem transfers with a word
processor that includes block moves
and justification.

While the ProModem impressed me
favorably, I am skeptical as to just
how compatible it is with the Smart-
modem and Super Serial Card (SSC).
I had no trouble running the modem
with its supplied software, but had no
luck interfacing it with two specialized
terminal programs, Talking Transend
from Computer Aids Corporation (Fort
Wayne, Indiana) and ProTerm from
Micro Talk (Louisville, Kentucky).

Prometheus says the 1200A emu-
lates a Super Serial Card driving a
Hayes modem, and should work with
any software that doesn't directly ad-
dress the SSC hardware. According
to Micro Talk, ProTerm fits that de-
scription, yet I couldn't make it work
with the ProModem, no matter how I
positioned the latter's jumper pins. On
the other hand, let me stress that the
ProModem worked very well with its
own software.

Those jumper pins form my other
ProModem complaint: two blocks,
programmed by moving the tiny
shorting pins to various positions,
change settings such as your choice
of SSC emulation versus the internal
firmware. I wasn't pleased by this ar-
rangement, and much prefer switches
to do this job. Switches are much
more easily changed and give a
clearer visual indication of system set-
tings; they make setting changes a
matter of flipping the switches and
doing a warm boot instead of remov-
ing the modem card, reinserting it,
and starting over.

AppteMate

While the ProModem and ProCom-
A are an attractive combination, I was
also very impressed by Cermetek's
AppleMate 1200. Although this giant
circuit card has bare-bones firmware
for Super Serial Card or Hayes com-
mands, it doesn't come with full-pow-
ered disk software; I don't consider
this a drawback, because there are
many fine communications programs

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already on the market. The Apple-
Mate also has an extensive reference
manual, geared for less-experienced
computer users.

Like the ProModem, the AppleMate
responds favorably to all Hayes Smart-
modem commands, mimicking the
most popular modem in the computer
industry. The AppleMate can be oper-
ated either directly from the keyboard
or through almost any terminal pro-
gram; I liked this simplicity, because it
let me get up and running without first
having to configure my software.

I also found the AppleMate a snap
to configure via its top-mounted DIP
switches, designed to emulate many
of the Apple Super Serial Card func-
tions. The AppleMate powers up with
command recognition and echo en-
abled, auto-answer disabled, and sta-
tus messages enabled in English. I
prefer my modems to awaken with
auto-answer enabled; it was an easy
change with the AppleMate.

As with the ProModem, I got favor-
able results when trying the Apple-
Mate with all baud settings and data

formats for uploads and downloads
between my lie and the University
VAX. All in all, I was highly pleased
with the AppleMate, though disen-
chanted with the arrangement for ad-
justing the speaker volume— you must
insert a small screwdriver into the
card, a risky and downright silly prop-
osition. (Why couldn't they put a
thumbwheel control on the board?)
But this is just a small imperfection,
because the AppleMate is a near-per-
fect modem for the money.

Pick a Winner

From the control point of view, the
ultimate modem card might be a hy-
brid, with the ProModem's easily
turned, front-mounted speaker knob
and the AppleMate's top-mounted
switch bank. But from a functional
standpoint, both modems proved
snappy on-line performers, well worth
their price tags.B

Joseph J. Lazzaro
Revere, MA

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A Healthy Choice

TOBACCO;
FITNESS

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Fitness

Marshware rounds out its Health
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Tobacco

Tobacco (To Smoke or Not to
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uses a twofold approach. The pro-
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and a teen-oriented simulation.

The tutorial encompasses 1 1 topics
that focus on the dangers of smoking
and brings to the student's attention
such well-established health hazards
as the effect of smoking on the heart
and lungs. The subject matter is sci-
entifically accurate and convincingly
presented.

Tobacco's simulation, "A Group of
Friends," is the more interesting pro-
gram module. One or more people
can run it, and it's appropriate for
home and school applications.

The scenario highlights a group of
a dozen computer friends. These
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the story begins, and you can watch
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them during their lives.

Choose a friend, like Anita, and
peek into her life when she turns 17,
20, 25, 30, 40, 50, and 60 (if she
reaches that age). You help your
friend avoid the dangers of smoking
by participating in her decisions.

Each round culminates in a Status
Report showing whether or not your
friend followed your advice and
whether he or she suffered any con-
sequences—such as being kicked off
the swim team, losing a boyfriend, or
any resulting health problems— of his
or her actions. And if your computer
friend dies, the program also states
that matter-of-factly.

The most shocking part of the Sta-
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and total cost of cigarettes smoked.
By age 20, my friend Anita had
smoked 43,800 cigarettes at a cost of
$2737.50. That money could have
bought a lot of computer goodies.

Fitness

You've heard of a well-balanced
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and chemicals that aren't.

The Health-Related Physical-Fitness
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results and print summary data. The
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top-flight shape, the results may be
disappointing.

To demonstrate how exercise can
help you become fit and trim, the
program lets you take your real-time
resting pulse rate, then gives you an
overall assessment of your cardiovascu-
lar fitness, based on this limited test.

You interact with Fitness in other
ways, too. The program gives you a
list of enjoyable exercises, ranging
from biking to jogging to walking. Se-
lect your favorite activity, and the pro-
gram tells you its aerobic, muscular,

flexibility, and weight-control values.
Fitness quickly puts to rest the ques-
tion it first poses: "If you can ride,
why walk?"

Fitness categorizes foods into five
groups. You may recall the basic
four— fruits and vegetables, breads
and cereals, milk and cheese, and
meat and protein. Fitness adds a
catch-all group— fats and sugars. With
so many fabricated foods in grocery
stores today and so many meals
eaten at fast-food restaurants, this last
group has, shall we say, a lasting ef-

fect on many hips and thighs.

To add insult to injury, Fitness cal-
culates the caloric cost of eating cer-
tain foods. Would you walk a mile for
a cookie? If you want to learn more
about the relationship between exer-
cise, food choice, and weight control,
Fitness can be a real eye-opener.

This program emphasizes the im-
portance of fitness in helping you
cope successfully with a stressful life-
style. Too many people, it seems,
choose drugs as a way to cope. Fit-
ness decries such a choice and
points out the hazards of illicit drugs,
as well as the potential dangers of
socially acceptable ones, such as al-
cohol and tobacco. ■

Cynthia E. Field
Wakefield, Rl

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Some He and //c programs, such
as WordPerfect and MousePaint, are
inspired by 16-bit IBM or 32-bit
Macintosh software. Fleet 3 is an en-
hanced version of a popular Commo-
dore 64 program, and its early 8-bit
heritage shows— it harks back to the
time when word processors made
nice, easily transferable ASCII text
files, because other kinds of files
hadn't been invented yet. Back then,
there wasn't any way to use format-
ting or control codes except inserting
them by hand; in that respect, Fleet 3
is even more laborious than another
early 8-bit program, WordStar.

But who said simple software's nec-
essarily bad? Nothing beats text files
for sending over phone lines or ex-
porting to other programs, and Fleet
3 is a one-drive user's dream: Once
it's loaded, you don't need the pro-
gram disk again. You can work with
no disk in the drive at all, until you
want to use one of the other two
Fleet disks (thesaurus or spelling dic-
tionary) or save your work to a data
disk. On the other hand, considering
that its three-part, disk-swapping pro-
gram is a natural for transfer to a
UniDisk 3.5 or hard disk, Professional
Software's policy is shameful: The word
processor is copy-protected, and a
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No Tildes or Backslashes

Fleet System's combination of
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its opening message— you must make
sure the caps-lock key is up (Fleet 3
won't work otherwise; the shift-lock
function is served by the tilde key)
and choose an 80- or 120-column
display. The latter allows horizontal
scrolling through tables set up with
Fleet 3's numeric tabs, which align
numbers at a decimal point and can
sum a column (with negative numbers
in parentheses or with minus signs
before or after them).

The usual top-of-screen margin and
tab ruler is only a tab indicator in
Fleet 3; text always fills the width of
the screen, with word wrap at 80 or
120 columns. A status indicator shows
the cursor line and column number;
letters next to it appear in standard or
inverse video as you toggle numeric,
shift-lock, and other modes. You
change from typeover to insert mode
by pressing shift-backslash; the back-
slash by itself inserts a space, and
pressing the escape key, then back-
slash, inserts a line.

Fleet 3 is easy to use once you
master its minor inconsistencies. Most
commands are executed by pressing
Esc (to toggle function mode), then
one or more keys, such as Esc, F to
find text or Esc, D, W, and Return to
delete a word (Fleet 3 has no unde-
lete ability and asks for confirmation
of deletions). There are, however, a
few apple-key commands to remem-
ber, such as apple-tab to set a tab (Esc,
tab clears all tabs). Pressing apple-Esc
offers a menu of disk functions; loading
a file or inserting one at the cursor is

as simple as typing 2/LETTER to
specify a drive and filename.

Chores and Complaints

The program is quick and respon-
sive, even when inserting text in the
middle of a file, but some of its good
ideas are poorly executed. Cursor
movement is awkward (no paging up
or down, though holding Esc and an
arrow key speeds scrolling, and mov-
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words instead of on their first letters).

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All search-and-replace jobs are univer-
sal, with no pauses or confirmation of
individual changes. Blocks or ranges
can be marked only in increments of
screen lines, not words or sentences.

One of Fleet 3's promising features
is the "extra text" area, space for a
second document in memory; you flip
between the two by pressing Esc, X.
It's great for holding scratchpad notes
or the supplied help file, but there's
no easy cut-and-paste transfer be-
tween files: you must identify an extra
text block as a named range or
macro, typing equal signs, abbrevia-
tions, and inverse apostrophes, before
you can summon it for insertion into
the main text.

Now, about those imbedded format-
ting or control codes. Nearly every
word processor offers a way to
change margins, force page breaks,
or put a single-spaced quotation into
a double-spaced document; Fleet Sys-
tem 3 does the same, letting you
type Esc, ] followed by cryptic codes
anywhere in your file you like. Since
its chock-full 80-column display bears

little resemblance to most business
letters, pressing apple-tilde enters a
"what you see is what you get" pre-
view mode, printing a file to the
screen to see page breaks, justifica-
tion, double spacing, and so on.

That's reasonable enough, but Fleet
3's reliance on plain text files makes it
the dumbest word processor around
when it comes to format settings.
There's no such thing as a default;
you must begin every file by specify-
ing not only margins and spacing,
but even page length (such as the
standard 11 inches or 66 lines), in a
line of gibberish such as pp66:pg54
:vp6:lm10:rm72:sp2:ju1 . It does a
great deal to reduce Fleet 3's speed
and simplicity.

The Nicer Side

Although Fleet 3's editor reminds
me of embedded-code text formatters
for Radio Shack's 24K Model 100
portable, its spelling checker and the-
saurus are surprisingly good. The
checker simply highlights unrecog-
nized words instead of suggesting al-

ternate spellings as high-end programs
do, but it's easy and rapid, supplying
a total word count, unique word
count, and checking a 4000-word He
in less than two minutes.

The 90,000-word dictionary missed
understatement, sidebar, desktop, and
synthesizer, but knew mudage, to-
plane, triptych, ennui, hobgobtn. and
other attempted traps. Adding words
to a personal user dictionary is easy,
and an auxiliary program lets you do
everything from checking the user
dictionary to analyzing a file's average
sentence length.

The thesaurus, while limited to a
smaller vocabulary (no synonyms for
terrible, for instance, but lots for beWa),
is equally friendly. It lets you look for
either synonyms or antonyms for a
word you either type on a status ine
or copy from your document wSh Ihe
up arrow. Selecting a synonym writ)
the cursor and pressing the return
key replaces the word in your text

Overall, Fleet System 3 is a tow-
priced program with fairly high-class
features, decent documentation, and
lively performance. If its basic word-
processing functions were as good as
its advanced ones, it'd be worth
recommending. ■

Eric Grevstad
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merge, macros, new commands,
mouse control, and improved file
management. Any one of these fea-
tures may justify the total program
price for you.

In fact, my only complaint about
the package involves that truism,
"You can't have it all." AutoWorks is
incompatible with another popular
AppleWorks add-on, Pinpoint (and
with a competitive product, Beagle
Bros' MacroWorks); I keep one copy
of AppleWorks enhanced with Pin-
point and another with AutoWorks, us-
ing one or the other disk depending
on my current project. The choice de-
pends on whether I want access to
non-AppleWorks tools, or want to stay
in AppleWorks and work wonders.

For example, business owners or
club officers will appreciate the ease
with which AutoWorks performs mail
merging. First, you create an Apple-
Works data base with pertinent infor-
mation like names and addresses.
Next, you use the AppleWorks word
processor to prepare your form letter,
using numeric codes that correspond
to the order of categories in the data
base. If "Name" is first in the data
base, it will have the code "<#1 >"
in the form letter.

With both files on the desktop,
press open apple-X, watch the Auto-
Works menu pop up on screen, and
select the mail-merge option. At this
point, you literally sit back and admire
the speed and style of the merging
process. As one form letter prints out,
the screen shows substitutions being
made in the next. After all the letters
are printed, you can proceed to other
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The mail-merge feature makes it
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invoices. In data-base codes like the
one above, simply substitute an aster-
isk for the pound sign. This turns off
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letter.

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Another powerful— and practical-
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Works chores. Instead of typing com-
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macro, store it, and then call up the
sequence by pressing only the solid-
apple and one or two other keys.

For example, one of AutoWorks'
predefined macros centers a line of

text at the touch of solid apple-C. It's
a lot easier than going to the Apple-
Works Options, selecting center justifi-
cation, going back to your document,
back to Options to unjustify, and back
to the document again.

You can use all, some, or none of
AutoWorks' roughly four dozen sup-
plied macros; some of the others au-
tomatically move the cursor home in
a spreadsheet, number an outline
with Roman numerals, or create a nu-
meric keypad in the middle of your
keyboard. If reading this has made
you think of specialized macro tasks,
you can easily create your own.

In a macro-related matter, two of
AutoWorks' added commands give
AppleWorks true delete and undelete
capacity— moving words or blocks of
text to the clipboard so that you can un-
delete them if you change your mind.

AppleWorks Meets Mouse

If you've longed for a mouse-con-
trolled AppleWorks, it's yours thanks
to AutoWorks. You can use the mouse
to make menu selections and to scroll

through files. Pressing the mouse but-
ton brings you to the beginning or
end of a document; double-clicking
(s-l-o-w-l-y) substitutes for pressing the
escape key to return to a prior menu.

Frankly, I'm accustomed to using
the keyboard to move around Apple-
Works and the "ruler" (open apple-1
through 9) for scrolling up and down
documents. I can see the value of us-
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however. AutoWorks doesn't turn off
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only if it's more convenient for you.

The AutoWorks "Read Disk" option
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tain versions of RAM-disk utilities may
not be compatible, however. ■

Cynthia E. Field
Wakefield, Rl

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such as Roland's MIDI Users Sequenc-
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can record with your Apple what you
play on the MIDI instrument (in my
case, a Casio CZ-101 keyboard), then
modify the measures and tracks to
get just the right sound. In short, a se-
quencer/editor is a word processor for
musicians.

What's so great about that? Well, this
Apple-powered musical tool reduces the
need for tape recorders, makes multi-
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brings serious electronic music composi-
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Getting Started

MUSE is a sophisticated, MIDI-reliant
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put you at ease. I was relieved by the
clear documentation "for the masses,"
written by a real musician and Roland
user.

The interface card and unit were a
snap to install. Photos in the owner's
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because you'll be prompted for its
number whenever you load the pro-
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If you like, you can bypass the set-
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one time; the program handles ap-
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When recording multiple tracks, you
can specify the measure from which
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Turbo Tutor

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Ultima III

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Solo Flight

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Universal file conv

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Sorcerer

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Utility City

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Speed Reader II

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Video Toolbox

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Spell Breaker

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Visable 6502

31.75

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23.50

Wilderness

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Spellworks

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Winter Games

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Spitfire Simulator

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Wisfibringer

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Spy Hunter

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Witness

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Spy vs. Spy

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Wizardry

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Squire

22.50

Wizard's Toolbox

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Starcross

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Wizprint

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Word Attack

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Star Trek

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Word Handler

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Word Perfect

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22.45

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23.75

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Apple Cat 212

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Compuserve Starter

21.95

Story Maker

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Datacase

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Activision on the Hgs

Activision's Writer's Choice Elite and PaintWorks Plus
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developed on the Hgs. They were written by Version Soft,
the French company that developed International Solu-
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between the two programs.

Above your colorful desktop, Writer's Choice displays a
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version not everything on the menu was in the kitchen:
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was far enough along to get a taste of the final product.

The Apple icon offers information and access to the Hgs
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save a file as, and so forth. (File commands and Edit op-
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from PaintWorks Plus could also appear on paper.

Edit offers choices like insert, delete, undo, and so on.
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on the print capabilities Apple decides to finally build into
the llGS. Activision will support whatever Apple offers in
firmware, but will surely offer color highlighting on screen.
The Color menu is clear; you select hues for text and
background. At the Window bar, you can choose new
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Activision's PaintWorks Plus lets you mix colors from
three "rainbow" palettes to create any of 4096 hues,
while your "paintbrush" cursor can vary in size,
shape, and the number of dots it contains.

Writer's Choice Elite is fun to work with, but it's also pro-
ductive: Those 16 windows mean a desktop big enough
to hold all your words. And informal speed tests put Writ-
er's Choice far ahead of any Mac word processor. Don't
put any money on Writer's Choice in a race with Roger Wag-
ner's MouseWrite on a 256K Apple lie with accelerator card,
though— MouseWrite would be in front by a nose.

PaintWorks Plus: Fun and Educational

PaintWorks Plus is fun to use, too. It may not be as
practical as Writer's Choice, but it's educational.

PaintWorks was modeled on MacPaint— the look is simi-
lar, but more colorful. At the bottom of the screen is your
current palette, from which you draw the colors and pat-
terns you want to paint. To the left is a pictorial menu of
choices: draw, erase, paint, make boxes, circles and
ovals, spray paint, and everything else you could do with
MacPaint. You choose from an iconic menu that's Apple
standard, if not altogether intuitive: For example, the lasso,
which to many would suggest a roundup, actually selects
part of the painting program.

The menu bar at the top shows Apple, File, Edit, Good-
ies, Color, Font, and Animation. Under the Apple icon are
all the usual features: About PaintWorks, Help, and access
to the Control Panel. The File Menu contains the usual
commands, plus Revert, a command that substitutes the
picture with which you started for the one you've drawn-
useful if you've painted a moustache on your Mona Lisa
and changed your mind.

When you Edit, you can Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear
the screen, Invert the painting, Flip it horizontally or verti-
cally, or Rotate it. (Remember that you can undo what
you just undid.) Activision also promises that you can
copy paintings into Writer's Choice documents.

Under the Goodies menu you can superimpose a Grid
on your painting— PaintWorks works almost like a drawing
program. Goodies also include FatBits, a "magnifying
glass" that lets you look at your work close up and make
changes in individual bits. You can "Show Page" and see
the entire picture at once, without menu bars and palettes.
You can change the shape and size of your "brush" and
the number of dots it contains.

Another good goody is Edit Pattern. Mac painting pro-
grams, lacking color with which to work, made good with
16 patterns that look like bricks in a wall, or Navajo rugs.
PaintWorks keeps these patterns and does them one better:
You can create color patterns. They make good back-
grounds, but artists will find more imaginative uses for them.

Your Color options are to Search for and Dispose of
colors, and to play with your Palettes. The Search Color
command finds every pixel of a given color in your pic-
ture and sets it flashing— not only a good way to preview
possible changes, but an easy way to simulate animation,
as well. Each palette contains a selection of 16 colors with
which you can work at one time (4096 colors are avail-
able). As many as 128 palettes can be stored on disk.

The Edit Palette option is an educational tool for non-
artists. Rather than paint with standard, "store-bought"
colors, artists like to mix their own paints; in PaintWorks,
you slide a "cursor" up and down a "rainbow" bar until
you find the color you like. You work with three rain-
bows—red, green, and blue. You can add and remove
colors to create any of the 4096 hues, letting you match
colors perfectly. The yellows are the weakest colors in that
mixing just the right shade is difficult.

Playing with the Palette Editor, you'll remember that the
Apple llGS is still digital. Those 4096 colors are about 64
times as many as most people can detect. Even a palette
of whites, in which the difference between one shade and
the next is only a shadow, is possible. The Palette Editor
gives you a quick lesson in color theory— the way adding
a bit of blue transforms yellow, for instance. It's fun, but
don't call it educational— it might scare kids away.

The Font menu, like the Writer's Choice Font menu, was
waiting in July for Apple to firm up its llGS firmware.
PaintWorks will support all the machine's fonts, which
should number at least seven.

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The only no-show at the PaintWorks performance in July
was full animation. It produced animated sequences, but
you couldn't create your own cartoon. The animation,
though, is good— it moves at 16 frames per second, and
hacker Walt Disneys can fill an entire disk with images if
they like. Animation isn't easy on the Apple IIgs— it doesn't
have the Amiga's "blitter" chip, which lets you move
blocks of the screen without accessing the microprocessor;
it doesn't have the Commodore 128's sprite graphics, or
even page-flipping, like the old Apple II. But PaintWorks
still handles animation beautifully.

Innovative Storytelling

Everyone's seen paint programs and word processors
before, but LearningWays' Explore-a-Story is new and
different.

Explore-a-Story is a small voice crying, "Innovation," in
a monotone wilderness. Explore-a-Story tells a tale (it's
billed as reading software for kids) in so radical a manner
that most adults won't even notice they're experiencing
the story in a whole new way. But kids will.

The stories are simple. "The Lima Bean Dream" and
"The Bald-Headed Chicken" are good tales for young
children: Colorful animals talk about problems kids under-
stand, like feeling lonely or hating lima beans.

These stories are distinguished in the telling. First, the
young reader gets a book. Already Explore-a-Story is
ahead of the reading-software pack, because nobody has
ever learned to read books by tickling a computer's keys,
no more than by watching Sesame Street on television.
The child holds a book in his or her hands— a book with
lots of pictures, complete sentences, and a story.

The innovation is that each picture— about 14 per story,
one for each scene— is also displayed on the computer.
The computer picture is unlike the image in the book—
and just like the one in the child's head. It's dynamic: You
can move objects around; birds fly; frogs hop.

You can add flora and fauna to a scene, or print dialog
on screen in balloons. You can print pictures— color or col-
oring-book-quality black-and-white— and coloring does
more for hand-eye coordination than typing or wielding a
joystick. .

Explore-a-Story sounds simple. It's much simpler than,

In LearningWays' Explore-a-Story series, colorful
characters talk about problems kids understand.
There's a structure on which the child can hang a
daydream, but there's room for imagination, too.

say, interactive fiction, in which you must crack a certain
code, pick up a particular toy, or say "abracadabra" to
survive into the next scene. In an Explore-a-Story, tomor-
row always comes; what you do in the first scene doesn't
affect the second.

Explore-a-Stories encourage reverie. In the words of their
creators, they're "noncoercive." There's a story— a struc-
ture on which the child can hang his or her daydreams—
but there's room for imagination at every turn.

The LearningWays user interface takes the Mac idea
and goes a step beyond. Two boxes are on screen at all
times. With the mouse, move the cursor to the upper
right-hand corner and click to "flip pages." Clicking on the
upper left-hand box brings the menu bar to the screen.

Menus are iconic. The animals menu, for instance, con-
tains a picture of an animal, and the pull-down menu
scrolls through a number of pictures of animals, not a list
of their names. You don't have to hold down the pull-
down menus, either. A child, who might find clicking and
dragging a bit difficult, merely has to click on the menu,
then bring that item into the picture.

Other menus list objects, including living things like trees,
that you can add to a scene, but you can't animate them. The
same goes for background landscapes; one possible land-
scape is empty, so the reader can start from scratch. The
Text menu contains the names of all the objects and ani-
mals on screen that the child can drag into the picture.
Disk (or File) and Print menus are more traditional.

LearningWays and book publisher D.C. Heath have 16
stories ready for the Apple IIgs, as well as eight science
lessons and three Spanish-language stories that use the
same routines. Although LearningWays didn't comment on
its plans for future Explore-a-Stories, inCider felt this unique
software would also be a great way to bring to life ancient
tales, tales such as "Androcles and the Lion" and "Jason
and the Argonauts" that preceded written language.

inCider

Broderbund's Newsmaker (below) lays out color
text, graphics, and background. It's suitable for
professional or beginning typesetters and design-
ers. Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint (right) takes ad-
vantage of the Hgs' 16 active colors.

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In the Works

In July, Broderbund was developing a program called
Drawing Table on a Macintosh. It will feature color on the
IIgs. The Drawing Table is more like MacDraw than Mac-
Paint in that you create scale drawings, plans, maps, and
blueprints rather than paintings. In addition, the Drawing
Table display looks like MacDraw's— menu bar at the top,
cursor options to the side. The drawing surface is a grid.

The menu offers File, Edit, Style, Fonts, Kind, View, and
Set, including the options you'd expect— file saving, var-
ious typestyles, printer options, and the like. The Kind
menu lets you set line thickness, pattern, and color, and
thickness and "roundedness" of corners. The Set menu
offers rotation and inversion, and can also line up your
drawing on the grid.

Drawing Table's Zoom feature lets you move in on a
small part of your drawing for detailed viewing and edit-
ing. Creatively using Zoom, you can also produce draw-
ings, plans, and blueprints much larger than your screen.

In addition to lines and boxes, Drawing Table contains
built-in arcs, which simplify the "free-hand" drawing of
complex objects.

Broderbund is also working on a desktop-publishing
program called Newsmaker, which was running on a Hgs
in July. Newsmaker has a small built-in word processor
and can also receive text files from AppleWorks or Broder-
bund's Bank Street Writer. You can resize graphics images
from other sources.

Newsmaker can lay out color text and color back-
grounds, too, but Broderbund stresses that black-and-white
support, including LaserWriter capability, is built in.

The menu bar offers Page, Text, Pen, Line, and Fill
menus, as well as the usual File and Edit. Page lets you
preview your page at various sizes— what you see is in-
deed what you get. You can turn a grid on or off; when
it's on, your text and graphics are automatically aligned to
the nearest eighth of an inch; when off, you can float

pieces freely on the page. You can wrap text around
those floating pictures, too.

The rest of the menu choices weren't implemented in
July, but a library of formats helps get beginners started.
That's the strength of the program: It's helpful not only to
professional typesetters and layout artists, but beginners, too.

Megahaus also promises desktop-publishing software. Its
PageWorks program uses an interesting technique that
keeps text in "cells," which work something like pages in
a word processor or cells in a spreadsheet. You can move
cells around in your layout, but when one cell is filled, the
text moves into the next as in a word processor.

Electronic Arts has moved Deluxe Paint from the Amiga
to the Apple Hgs. The only differences are that the IIgs
has 16 active colors compared to the Amiga's 32, and
that the Amiga has a blitter chip to ease animation. The
IIgs Deluxe Paint will be slower, too.

Two other programs in the works for the Apple IIgs in
July were Scholastic's Talking TextWriter, a speaking word
processor that also runs on the old Apple II, and TML
Systems' Pascal, an implementation of the programming
language that promises the best of Mac Pascal and Apple
II Instant Pascal in one package.

A Safe Investment

Rather than risk investing time and money in programs
that work only on the Apple IIgs, a number of software
developers have simply upgraded old Apple II programs:
Rags to Riches (Chang Labs), Pinpoint (Pinpoint),
CommWorks (PBI), Managing Your Money (MECA), Dollars
& Sense (Monogram), MouseWrite (Roger Wagner Publish-
ing), and VIP Professional (VIP Technologies). MouseWrite,
a word processor, and VIP Professional, a spreadsheet
program, have already used the "point and click" inter-
face and mouse in their earlier Apple II lives— in fact,
they're products that seem to have been waiting for
the IIgs.

The story of Apple IIgs software has an ironic twist: The
most interesting program available for the IIgs at this time
is LearningWays' Explore-a-Story, which was released si-
multaneously for the good old 128K Apple lie and lie. As
you'd expect, though, the IIgs version is faster, and the
colors are prettier.

The moral is simple: Good hardware, even innovative hard-
ware, won't give birth to good, new software overnight. Good
software needs imaginative programmers who are willing to
try something new, and raise a bright young program. ■

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The Hgs Hardware Report

While the software for the Apple IIgs hasn't yet
reached its creative potential, certain developments in
hardware may provide tools programmers need to
break new ground.

The big news in IIgs hardware is in graphics and
sound. AST Research (2121 Alton Avenue, Irvine, CA
92714, 714-863-1333) has added a frame grabber
called VisionPlus ($249, including hardware and soft-
ware) to its HD-2000 line of hard disks and SprintDisk
memory-expansion cards for the Apple IIgs. VisionPlus
is a tool that digitizes any standard NTSC video input,
then lets you manipulate the image with your drawing
program— much as you'd copy typewritten text into
your word processor with an optical character reader.

It's a popular peripheral for the Commodore Amiga,
but the Apple IIgs model, which AST says will be avail-
able beginning the first quarter of 1987, should take
video image processing out of artists' ateliers and into
the schools. The benefit of frame grabbing for educa-
tion is limited only by the value of the video: Imagine
making multiple copies of maps and charts from a TV
science special simply by using your color printer.

PBI Software and MDIdeas (1111 Triton Drive, Suite
101, Foster City, CA 94404, 415-349-8765) promise a
IIgs audio digitizer called SuperSonic, as well as atten-
dant music software. The product should feature true
stereo sound and sport an amplifier cord you attach to
your hi-fi. It uses its own Ensoniq sound chip, just like
the one in the IIgs, and creates as many as eight
wave forms in two channels; the software lets you com-
pose your own music. At $100 for hardware and soft-
ware, this system is a low-cost synthesizer.

New RAM-expansion boards will also be available from
numerous manufacturers. Even Applied Engineering (P.O.
Box 798, Carrollton, TX 75006, 214-241-6060), the com-
pany that brought a rival "standard" for memory expan-
sion to the Apple lie— one that became more popular
than the Apple protocol— has an Apple-compatible mem-
ory-expansion board for the IIgs. PBI will market its own
memory-expansion card, OctoRAM, with up to 8 mega-
bytes, along with a IIgs power supply/power conditioner.

There are some brand-new ideas as well on the RAM-
card horizon. In addition to offering a IIgs ProGrappler,
which supplies a parallel interface, Orange Micro (1400
North Lakeview Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92807, 714-779-
2772) will present a product called RAMPack, a 512K
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CommWorks

PBI Software
1111 Triton Drive
Suite 201

Foster City, CA 94404
(415) 349-8765
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Deluxe Paint

Electronic Arts
1820 Gateway Drive
San Mateo, CA 94404
(415) 571-7171

Reader Service Number 311

Dollars & Sense

Monogram

8295 South La Cienega
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Inglewood, CA 90301
(213) 215-0355
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Drawing Table, $89.95

Newsmaker, $89.95

Broderbund

17 Paul Drive

San Rafael, CA 94903

(415) 479-1700

Reader Service Number 313

Explore-a-Story

D.C. Heath

Collamore Educational

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125 Spring Street

Lexington, MA 02173

(617) 860-1421

$66

Reader Service Number 314

Managing Your Money

MECA

285 Riverside Avenue
Westport, CT 06880
(203) 222-1000

Reader Service Number 315
MouseWrite

Roger Wagner Publishing
10761 Woodside Avenue
Suite E

Santee, CA 92071
(619) 562-3221
$149.95

Reader Service Number 316

PageWorks

Megahaus
5703 Oberlin Drive
San Diego, CA 92121
(619) 450-1230

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Activision
P.O. Box 7286
Mountain View, CA 94039
(415) 960-0410

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Pinpoint Publishing
5901 Christie Avenue
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Emeryville, CA 94608

(415) 654-3050
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Rags to Riches

Chang Labs
5300 Stevens Creek
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San Jose, CA 95129
(408) 246-8020
$199.95

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Scholastic Software
730 Broadway
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(800) 325-6149
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TML Systems

4241 Baymeadows Road

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Programming the IIgs

EXPLORING

THE WORLD OF

by Robert M. Ryan

nure, the Apple IIgs has great graphics and sound, lots of
memory, and a high degree of compatibility with current
Apple ll's. So what's new in the GS for programmers? If
you're a programmer, the most important thing about the
latest Apple II is that at first you'll know very little about how it
works. The IIgs is an unexplored continent, waiting for you to
unearth its secrets. In other words, the IIgs is a great ma-
chine to hack. And if you're going to hack the GS, you'd
better learn C.

Without a lot of fanfare, C has become the language of choice among pro-
fessional personal-computer programmers. Even Apple Computer, long
a champion of Pascal, has bowed to the inevitable: The company
has designated C the "official" language of the IIgs, and is ready-
ing a C compiler for the machine. If you're an Apple II pro-
grammer, you're probably not familiar with this language— C
doesn't fit comfortably into 8-bit machines. The 16-bit IIGS,
though, is made to take advantage of C's power and speed. In
this article, I'll give you an overview of C— a starting point for your
explorations of C and the IIgs.

Roots in UNIX Development

C hatched from the creative mind of one man— Dennis Ritchie— working
AT&T's Bell Laboratories in the early 1970's. C was designed as a systems lan-
guage, not a general-purpose programming language. Ritchie wanted a language
that would let him and his associates develop systems software— compilers and utili-
ties—for UNIX, the operating system then under development at Bell Labs. Ritchie was
so successful that eventually most of UNIX was written in C, as well.

When Bell Labs began licensing UNIX to universities in the mid-1 970's, C was part
of the package. By the end of the decade, C was showing up in a number of com-
mercial installations. From there it was inevitable that C, like other languages, would be
transported into the burgeoning microcomputer world. What no one foresaw was that
C and microcomputers make a nearly perfect match.

C and your Hgs:
This powerful yet
compact programming
language can help you ge
the most from Apple's soph
cated new machine.

Compact Code and External Libraries

C straddles the line between high-level languages, such
as BASIC and Pascal, and low-level ones, such as assem-
bler. Like a high-level language, it insulates you from the
hardware: You don't have to know the architecture of the
machine to program in C. On the other side of the coin,
C also lets you manipulate your data down to the bit
level. This feature makes it a great favorite of systems pro-
grammers: They can do bit-level manipulations without
having to know the hardware.

C is a very small language— it uses less than three
dozen keywords, and doesn't even have a print statement.
All input and output, as well as math functions and any
machine-dependent functions, are handled by calls to ex-
ternal libraries. Some of these libraries, such as the stan-
dard input-output library, contain the same routines and
have the same syntax regardless of the type of machine
with which they work, thus ensuring that C programs are
quite portable. Other libraries, such as graphics libraries,
differ from machine to machine.

This dependence on external libraries illustrates one of
C's important features: It's a modular language, letting you
build large programs out of small pieces. C also has a
wide array of data types, operators, and control structures.
In addition, C lets you combine basic data types to build
your own data structures. Since one of these basic data
types is the pointer, complex structures such as linked lists
are easily implemented in C.

C compilers are native-code compilers. Their output is
the machine code of the target machine, not an intermedi-
ate code like that of the Apple Pascal compiler. Because
the core of the language is so small and programmers
can get right down to the bit level, C programs are usu-
ally small and fast. C probably produces the fastest, most
compact code this side of assembly language, yet it's
nearly as easy to use as other high-level languages. This
makes it very attractive to anyone who wants to get the
most out of his or her computer.

Program listing. This sample C program prints "The IIGS
is great!" 100 times on your screen. Comments are
included between asterisk/slash marks.

main( ) /*Every C program needs

one main module. The
empty parenthesis
opens the standard
input and output
streams and the
standard run-time
library.*/

{ /'Braces set off modules.*/

int i = 100, n = 1; /*A11 C variables must be

declared. In this case,
both i and n are integers .
They are also assigned
initial values.*/

while (n < = i) /'Conditions for loop

exit.*/

{ /*Sets off while block./*

print f ("The IIGS is greatl"\n");

/♦Function call to standard
print function. Prints text
to standard output device
(monitor) and sends a new-
line character (LF+CR).*/

n++; /'Increments counter.*/

} /*End while block.*/

} /*End of main program.*/

Arithmetic

C Operators

addition

subtraction or negation
multiplication

< less than

< = less than or equal to

> greater than

> = greater than or equal to

equal to
! = not equal to

division

Bit operators

modulus

one's complement

Logical

AND

XOR

AND

< <

left shift

NOT

> >

right shift

Assignment

Pointers,

structures, miscellaneous

+ +

increment

address of

decrement

indirection (complement of address of)

simple assignment (can be combined with

size of

size in bytes

any arithmetic or bit-level operator to form

member of structure

compound assignment operators)

- >

member of structure

cast

forced type conversion

conditional

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ANAIC

Writing a C Program

You can't simply type in a C program and run it, as
you would a BASIC program. Many steps are involved in
producing an executable C program. First, you must type
the C source code into a text editor, then call the C com-
piler to expand any macros you included and to translate
the source code into machine or object code. Finally, you
need to link your object file to any libraries or external
routines your program needs. Only then do you have a pro-
gram you can run. If your program has bugs, you have to
return to the source-code stage to correct your errors, then
recompile the program before you can run it again.

Although writing a C program can be a laborious prop-
osition, the fast, efficient code that results is usually worth
the effort. Compiling parts of a program separately and
linking them when you need to can greatly reduce the
time involved in developing a long program. Debugging
ten 20-line modules is a lot easier than debugging 200
lines of source code.

Variable-Type Conversion

Although it's a powerful language, C has a few draw-
backs. Unlike Pascal source code, which is easy to read
and understand, C source code is quite cryptic. Keywords
and function names are abbreviated, and you'll find a lot
of parentheses and braces floating around. All in all, C
source code isn't easy to follow.

More importantly, C places a great deal of the burden
of type checking on the programmer. It's easy to convert

a variable from one type to another in a C program (to
access certain external routines, for example), and, many
programmers say, too easy to do so accidentally, perhaps
destroying the integrity of your data. C gives you great
flexibility in type conversion, but it also makes you respon-
sible for keeping things straight.

Despite its quirks, C strikes a balance between the
speed and power of assembler and the ease of use of
high-level languages: It's the ideal tool for mining the
power of your new Apple llGS.B

Bob Ryan, former technical editor for inCider, is currently
technical editor for AmigaWorld (CW Communications).

References

Apple Computer Corp., Apple IIGS Technical Reference
Manual. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1986. Roadmap
to Hgs ROM routines.

Hancock, Les, and Morris Krieger, The C Primer: 2nd
Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1986. The best C tuto-
rial I've ever run across.

Kernighan, Brian W., and Dennis M. Ritchie, The C
Programming Language, Prentice Hall, 1978. The C Bi-
ble—the definitive description of C.

Reserved Words in C

Lowercase reserved words, or keywords, are recog-
nized by the C compiler and define the types of opera-
tions the computer is to perform.

auto
break

case

char
continue
default

double
else
enum

extern

float

for

goto

declares automatic variables

in a loop, lets control pass to next

statement

in a multiple-alternative situation,
precedes integer or character con-
stant

declares character variables
passes control back to top of loop
specifies option if cases of switch
statement don't match
with while, tests a condition after
executing a statement
declares double-precision variables
extends the if control structure
draws parallels between different
types of variables
designates a global variable
declares a floating-point variable
designates loop structure, a reor-
ganization of while. . . do syntax
indicates unconditional branch to
specified label

int
long

return
short
sizeof
static

struct
switch

typedef
union

unsigned
void

while

indicates conditional control struc-
ture

declares a variable of type integer
allocates additional bytes for larger
integer values

gives a variable priority use of an

internal register, gives programmer

lower-level control of program

ends function, returns execution to

point of function call

indicates a short integer, allows

faster execution speed

returns number of bytes used to

store a variable

indicates local variables in func-
tions, but values aren't lost if func-
tion is called again
groups variables of different types
into a logical unit

in multiple-alternative situation, pre-
cedes integer expression to be
evaluated and matched against
constant values
declares type of variable
allocates storage space for vari-
ables of different types
declares a positive integer variable
denotes a type of function that
doesn't return a value
tests a condition before executing
a statement

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dDOS the common file environment.

by Roger Wagner

Soul of a New Machine

The central issue for any assembly-language programmer is, of course, the ma-
chine's microprocessor. The Apple llGS uses the 65816, a descendant of the original
Apple It's 6502. The 65816, though, has 36 new instructions and 11 new addressing
modes, for a total of 91 individual new instructions.

What's the advantage? When the 65C02 was introduced, it simplified certain pro-
gramming steps by adding new instructions. For example, to set a memory location to
zero in the 6502, you first load the accumulator with zero, then store that value in the
desired memory location. The 65C02 makes this easier (and eliminates use of the
accumulator entirely) with the instruction STZ, which stores a zero in the designated
location. The 65816 not only adds convenient instructions like MVN (move block nega

tive) and MVP (move block positive), which move a
block of memory with a single instruction,
but adds 1 6-bit (2-byte) operation and
larger memory addressing, as well.

Assembly-language programmers are
looking to the future— with a powerful
microprocessor and new tools in
ROM, the IIgs is giving them
fresh inspiration.

To understand why 16-bit operations are useful, consider
the problem of adding a large offset (greater than 256) to
an existing 2-byte address in the Apple lie. You'd usually
do this by individually adding the low- and high-order bytes; it
might take seven instructions in assembly language.

In the 65816, you can set the accumulator, X, and Y
registers to be 16 bits long, which means that any of
them can contain a complete 64K address and you can
add a large value to a 2-byte address with just four in-
structions. This takes fewer microprocessor cycles to ac-
complish, and thus you get your answer faster than you
would with a 6502 or 65C02.

The net result is that programs written specifically for the
65816 will run faster and use less memory than equivalent
programs written for the 6502 or 65C02.

Although not a direct result of using the 65816, the Ap-
ple IIgs also runs about twice as fast as an Apple He or lie,
and this, combined with the inherently faster execution of
65816 programs themselves, yields a speed increase of
four to eight times over an equivalent 6502/C02 program.

The other big advantage of the 65816 is its ability to
address a larger amount of memory than the 6502/C02.
You address a memory location by setting up a bit pattern
in a microprocessor register. This register correlates to the
microprocessor's address bus, the group of parallel wires
needed to address a given memory location.

The number of wires in the address bus determines the
amount of continuous memory a program can address. In
the 6502/C02, the address bus is 16 bits (2 bytes) wide,
and 64K becomes the limit of addressable memory.

In Apple II 's with more memory (such as the 128K Ap-
ple He) or memory-expansion cards, the 6502/C02 oper-
ates on blocks of 64K switched in one at a time. A soft
switch somewhere in the $C000 range of memory controls
the block selected at any particular time.

The microprocessor itself can't treat the larger amount of
memory as a continuous block. This, among other rea-
sons, is why so few programs take advantage of larger
amounts of memory in an Apple II. (See "Bank-Switched
Memory," August 1986, p. 50, and "6502 Addressing,"
Apple Clinic, June 1986, p. 26, for more information.)

The 65816, however, has a 24-bit (3-byte) address bus,
and addresses specified in a program can be 3 bytes
long, yielding a maximum of 4.25 megabytes (256 x
64K) of memory addressable by the microprocessor itself.
A great deal of the credit for the improvements in the Ap-
ple IIgs goes to the designers of the 65816 itself, Western
Design Center of Phoenix, Arizona.

Tools for Programming

The microprocessor itself represents a large territory for
assembly-language programmers to explore in the coming
years, but there's even more to make the adventure excit-
ing. Apple has also built a number of "tools" into the
IIgs, tucked into the 128K of ROM that comes in each
machine.

These tools include QuickDraw II, the SANE Numeric
package, Memory Manager, Desk-Accessory Manager,
Event Manager, Menu Manager, Window Manager, Control
Manager, Line Editor, Dialog Manager, Scrap Manager,
and Print Manager. If you're familiar with the Macintosh,
you'll recognize the similarity.

The presence of these tools in every machine means
that a programmer can quickly put true (not simulated)

windows, pull-down menus, dialog boxes, interrupt han-
dling, and much, much more into a program without writ-
ing any of the specific code that performs the function or
dedicating large amounts of RAM to the job.

With the Apple II, many programmers use this technique
to take advantage of built-in Monitor and Applesoft rou-
tines to enhance their assembly-language programs. The
Monitor and Applesoft make up 12K— imagine what you'll
be able to do with ten times that amount!

Whatever IIgs tool you use, you follow the same proce-
dure. The stack first holds all data to be passed to the
software tool, including a code number that identifies the
particular tool you want to call. The program then exe-
cutes all tool calls by means of the equivalent of a JSR
(jump to subroutine) to address SE10000, the Tool Loca-
tor. The Tool Locator also lets you use disk-based tools
and automatically loads whatever it needs if it can't find it
already in ROM. After the tool call, any returned data are
on the stack, ready to be pulled off by the calling program.

The Apple IIgs Monitor also includes a mini-assembler
and disassembler that work with 6502, 65C02, and 65816
instructions, as well as disassembling ProDOS MLI (ma-
chine-language interface) calls.

Hardware Extras

In addition to its software enhancements, a number of
hardware additions make the IIgs a more interesting ma-
chine. Among them are a built-in clock, a 32-oscillator
sound-synthesis chip, an improved graphics display (320
by 200 pixels with 16 colors, or 640 by 200 pixels with
four colors), AppleTalk interface, and the Apple Desktop
Bus. The Desktop Bus, also called the Front Desk Bus, is
an all-inclusive keyboard and mouse interface you can ex-
pand to interface to graphics tablets, numeric keypads,
and other input devices.

Keep in mind that the assembler you're using must be
able to accommodate the 65816 with its new instruction
set. Apple Computer (20525 Mariani Avenue, Cupertino,
CA 95014, 408-996-1010) provides an updated version of
the assembler ORCA/M to handle it; the development
package also includes a macro library to make calling IIgs
tools easier. Roger Wagner Publishing (10761 Woodside
Avenue, Suite E, P.O. Box 582, Santee, CA 92071, 619-
562-3670) offers a MerlinPro extension called Merlin 16,
and the S-C Macro Assembler from S-C Software (P.O.
Box 280300, Dallas, TX 75228, 214-324-2050) also sup-
ports 65816 instructions.

All in all, if you've enjoyed programming on the Apple
II, the Apple IIgs will be a treat. The only thing more im-
pressive than the creation of the Apple II itself is what
resourceful, inventive programmers have been able to do
with it over the years, in . many cases surpassing what
even the original designers thought possible.

If the past is any indication, the IIgs will give birth to an en-
tirely new generation of software. I hope you'll be a part of it. ■

Roger Wagner is the author of Assembly Lines: the Book
and is president of Roger Wagner Publishing, the pub-
lisher of Merlin and MerlinPro assemblers. Write to him at
Roger Wagner Publishing, 10761 Woodside Avenue, Suite
E, P.O. Box 582, Santee, CA 92071.

November 1986

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Program Selectors

ORGANIZERS

Take the drudgery out of desktop
management: inCider evaluates three
program selectors that will organize
your software housekeeping.

by Cynthia E. Field

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numbers like a gourmet
V V chef and his Cuisinart,

» I but repetitive computing tasks are

H about as much fun as the stack of

dirty dishes in the kitchen. Let's
^4 I face it: Typing pathnames and
^^^^ | swapping disks is the pits!

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utility— program selectors, or desktop organizers— can rev-
olutionize your disk housekeeping chores, using Macin-
tosh-style icons and menus to make child's play out of
program juggling or ProDOS management. While the three
desktop packages tested here differ in many subtle and
not-so-subtle ways, they have one trait in common: They'll
have you working more effectively than ever before.

Mac-coutrements for ProDOS

The tested trio— Quark's Catalyst, International Solutions'
Mouse Desk, and Harbor Software's MouseFiler— emu-
late the Mac interface with mouse- or keyboard-controlled
pull-down menus.

Catalyst and Mouse Desk make your computer's screen
look like the Macintosh Desktop, complete with icons such
as a trash can for deleting programs and files. You can
drag icons around the desktop or move them from win-
dow to window with a mouse or its keyboard equivalent.

In Catalyst, starting up a new program is as easy as
double-clicking on that program's icon. In Mouse Desk,
it's a snap to copy a file from one disk to another by
clicking on and dragging that file's icon.

MouseFiler, by contrast, has windows and pull-down
menus but few icons. In that, it resembles applications
such as Mouse Word and Mouse Calc from Mouse Desk
publisher International Solutions (see "The Magic of the Vi-
sual Interface," April 1986, p. 56).

As for hardware requirements, Catalyst and MouseFiler
work only on lie's or enhanced lie's, while Mouse Desk

can get along on machines without mousetext. All require
128K and one disk drive, but are designed to shine with
multiple ProDOS peripherals such as the UniDisk 3.5 and
various hard disks and RAM disks. None requires a mouse,
though most work better with one. Catalyst and MouseFiler
can read the time and date from hardware clocks.

Catalyst: Most Like the Mac

In certain respects, Catalyst is the Cadillac of the four
programs reviewed here. It's the most expensive and re-
quires a mass-storage device such as a UniDisk 3.5 or
hard drive, but includes extras like MousePaint and an ar-
ray of utilities (Apple's System Utilities, Quick Copy, Filer,
and Backup II) as standard. There are even appealing if
faddish features such as a Mac-style calculator, a puzzle,
and a desktop that comes in a number of pleasing back-
ground patterns.

If your application programs are recognized by Catalyst
or are noncopy-protected, you can use Catalyst to install
them on your 3'/ 2 -inch disk or hard disk. Depending on
the applications you use, it's possible to start up your
computer in the morning and not have to switch disks all
day. For instance, you can install the Catalyst desktop,
AppleWorks, and all Pinpoint accessories (including the
Pinpoint Spelling Checker) on one microdisk. If you have
an appropriately sized RAM disk, you can direct Catalyst
to copy any program to it automatically at startup.

Program-oriented as it is, Catalyst is somewhat weak
when it comes to file handling and similar housekeeping
chores. If you use a UniDisk 3.5, performing a simple task
such as copying files between disks requires that you
leave the Catalyst desktop, temporarily abandoning the
Mac interface and parking the mouse, to invoke the sup-
plied Apple System Utilities.

Catalyst offers four pull-down menus: Apple, File, Edit,
and Miscellaneous. The Apple menu contains some of the
Catalyst goodies, such as the four-function calculator,

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Catalyst

M. Desk

M. Filer

Ease of learning

■ ■■

Ease of use

■ ■■

Documentation

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Support

■ ■■

Overall

■ ■■

clock, desktop appearance, and puzzle.

The File menu has an assortment of seemingly disparate
offerings. You can Get Info about a program here, or
Open an icon to start a program without a mouse. If
you're averse to pushing the little button on your UniDisk
3.5, you can click on Eject in the File menu, or Quit the
program altogether.

The choices in Catalyst's Edit menu (Undo, Cut, Copy,
Paste, Clear, Show Clipboard) are largely unavailable. The
manual states that these items are activated by "separate
desk-accessory products." Undaunted by a continuous
busy signal, I dialed (and let my phone redial and redial)
Quark's technical-support number. When I finally got through,
a spokesman told me there are no such products.

The Miscellaneous menu presents some convenient op-
tions for mouseless users. Instead of dragging disk icons
or using the trash can, you can Copy or Delete programs
or Discard disks via menu choices. Other Miscellaneous
choices let you show or hide the RAM-disk icon (if you
have a RAM disk) or bring a floppy-disk icon to the screen if
you insert a new program disk into a 5%-inch drive.

Catalyst has a flexible, full-spectrum user interface; you
can use it exclusively with the mouse or exclusively with-
out one. Either way, you can avoid the pull-down menus
by learning a few mostly mnemonic control-key and apple-
key commands.

The Catalyst manual is thorough and well designed. A
table of contents, glossary, and index make finding infor-
mation easy. There are separate chapters for mouse and
mouseless operation and a whole chapter devoted to disk
management, covering 5%-inch, 3'/ 2 -inch, hard, and
RAM disks.

While it excels at installing copyable programs, Catalyst
itself is the only copy-protected program of the four tested.
A free backup is provided, however.

Mouse Desk: Variation on a Theme

Where Catalyst is program-oriented, Mouse Desk is file-
oriented. Its windows show individual file (or subdirectory)
icons, not program icons. As a result, windows containing
many files can seem overwhelmingly cluttered; you may
have to scroll through two or more screens to see all the
files listed. To Mouse Desk's credit, however, you don't
have to leave the program to perform routine chores like
copying files or formatting disks.

Like Catalyst, Mouse Desk is very Mac-like. It features
pull-down menus, expandable windows, dialog boxes, and
disk, file, and trash-can icons. A Show menu lets you dis-
play files by icon, name, date, size, or type.

You can install unprotected software by transferring pro-
gram files to 3 1 / 2 -inch or hard disks. The latest versions of
Mouse Word and Mouse Calc are two such programs that
can reside along with Mouse Desk on one microfloppy.

Selecting and running either of these programs is as sim-
ple as pulling down the Run menu and clicking on the
desired entry.

This setup is especially convenient if you're looking for
an alternative to AppleWorks, because the Mouse Series is
integrated.

Like Catalyst, Mouse Desk offers mnemonic apple-key
commands to help speed things for mice and typists alike.
A Keyboard menu helps mouseless users make selections,
move elevators, and manipulate windows more easily.

The Check menu lets Mouse Desk ascertain the status of
connected drives. If you want to leave Mouse Desk and
work on a program that's not on the Run list, pull down the
Boot menu and click on the Slot 5 or Slot 6 listing.

The original Mouse Desk manual was incomplete and
contained editorial errors. At this writing, a new manual
that promises to be much better is in the works.

MouseFiler: A Desktop Bargain

If you're looking for a Mac-like disk-file manager at a
very reasonable price, look no further. MouseFiler's six

RunRun:
Pinpoint Meets Programs

As Cynthia Field finished this review, inCider received
a prerelease copy of a fourth ProDOS program selec-
tor: RunRun, a new entry from Pinpoint Publishing
(5901 Christie Avenue, Emeryville, CA 94608). Like
MouseFiler, RunRun uses mousetext characters (but no
icons) and requires a lie or 128K enhanced lie; it dis-
plays a Macintosh-style desktop with expandable, mov-
able windows. It also appears to be aimed almost
exclusively at users of Pinpoint's Desktop Accessories
package.

In addition to a disk-catalog window showing files by
name, type, size, or date, RunRun ($49) features an
applications window listing your executable programs
(you install programs by specifying their on-screen titles
and on-disk paths and filenames). There are two pull-
down menus, opened with the escape key. The File
menu lets you select a floppy, hard, or RAM disk, sort
the catalog, or run, install, or uninstall an application.
RunRun doesn't offer mouse control, and (at least in
the prototype version) has no file- or disk-handling com-
mands such as copying or formatting.

Instead, there's the Accessories menu, a list of Pin-
point utilities such as the notepad, appointment calen-
dar, phone dialer, and filer (for some of the ProDOS
functions omitted from the main program). The advan-
tage of RunRun, and the reason for its name, is its
ability to run one accessory from within another. For
example, after opening Pinpoint's notepad from the
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This convenience, and the customizable applications
window for users interested in setting up their own
menu-driven hard-disk or UniDisk 3.5 systems, seem to
be RunRun's main attractions. We'll keep an eye on it,
and the legions of other new products Pinpoint plans,
as production copies become available. □

—Eric Grevstad

November 1986

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pull-down menus contain most of the disk-maintenance op-
tions you're likely to want.

File and Volume commands are listed in separate
menus. Using the former menu, you can open a file and
display its contents in ASCII or hexadecimal format; copy,
paste, delete, rename, and compare files; or create, list,
copy, or delete directories. The Volume menu offers op-
tions for listing, formatting, copying, renaming, and com-
paring disk volumes. MouseFiler determines block
allocation and tests for bad blocks.

On-line volumes appear in a special window listing vol-
ume names and locations. Clicking on a volume opens it;
double-clicking opens a directory window listing files by
icon, name, and type (MouseFiler recognizes more than a
dozen file types, including the three AppleWorks applica-
tions). Disk swaps, by the way, are not automatically rec-
ognized; when you change disks, you have to click on
the Volume List option in the Volume menu.

A decidedly strong file-management program, Mouse-
Filer is understandably less adept at program selection. To
boot an application program, you highlight the volume
name, open its directory, click on a system file, move to
the Apple menu, and select Exit to Program.

MouseFiler works well and is easy to learn, though I
would like to see some improvement in error handling. I
purposely asked the program to format a disk in slot 6, drive
2, a drive not attached to my lie. Instead of a "Can't find de-
vice" message, I was told, "Disk is write-protected."

When I wanted to format a microfloppy in my UniDisk
3.5 (slot 5, drive 1), an inexplicit message warned, "You
are about to format a big disk. Do you really want to do
this?" Once you consent and type in the disk's name, the
formatting begins— with no warning if the target disk al-
ready contains data! Programs usually ask if it's "OK to
Destroy" a preformatted volume.

Despite these complaints, I like MouseFiler. It's an un-
pretentious program that does what it claims to do, with
an adequate manual and no copy protection. The manual
says this last point is "for your protection." This refreshing
attitude makes me think that maybe MouseFiler's devel-
opers are consumers, too.

At $39.95, MouseFiler is an excellent investment. It can
be installed on mass-storage devices using Catalyst. Such
a configuration eliminates the need to leave the Catalyst
desktop to use Apple's System Utilities, as MouseFiler eas-
ily substitutes for all except modem and printer utilities.
With a Catalyst/MouseFiler partnership, you'll probably
never have to abandon the Mac metaphor and leave your
mouse idle.

Different Strokes

None of the programs reviewed here is perfect in every
way. Neither are software reviewers or Apple II users, so
several satisfying matchups are possible.

If you want a Mac-like program selector, Catalyst is
tops. If you have a lot of file-management chores and like
the Mac environment, MouseFiler is an excellent buy. If
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Product Information

Catalyst 3.0

MouseFiler 1.1

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(617) 263-1870

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$39.95

$99

lie or enhanced lie

Reader service Number 301

Reader Service Number 300

Editor's note: International

Mouse Desk 1.02

Solutions, U.S. distributor of

International Solutions

Version Soft's Mouse Desk,

Distributor unknown

went out of business at

at press time;

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$69.95

tions board member and

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when one is named.

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• Inserts current date/time into
your printed AppleWorks
documents.

• Works in any slot, including slot 3.

• Provides four interrupt rates (1 msec-1 hr.

• Automatically emulates other clocks,
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• Complete with utility software (double-sided disk)

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Smart 1200 364.95

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Pro 1200 279.95

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Apple

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3m SS/DD

Verbatim Bonus SS/DD
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Kensington
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Koala Technologies
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3RAPHIC INTERFACES

w/64k
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Orange Micro

Grappler +
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Silver Reed

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Apple
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BPI Software

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B roderund/Bankst reef
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Compuserve
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Howard soft

RE Analayzer III

Intuit

Quicken

Living Videotext

Think Tank

Megahaus/Works Series
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Microsoft

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Monogram

72.95
40.95

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34,95

Quark

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Mouse Write (new)
Write Choice

Sensible Software

Sensible Grammar
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Sierra On Line

Homeword +
Home Word Filer
Screenwriter Pro

Software Publishing

PFS:WR, GR RP, PL (ea)
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Sorcim/IUS

Super IMA

SS/

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United Software

ASCii Express

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99.95
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58.95

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107.95

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80.95

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Activision

Kitchen's Game Maker

Baudville

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Business 33.95

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Take 1 37.95

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Beagle Brothers

Alpha Plot, D-Code, Extra-K,

Triple Dump (ea)

25.95

Apple Mech., Bag, Diskquick, Flex-

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20.95

Basic, Big L)., Dbl. Take, Fat Cat.

Macro Works. Probyter (ea)

22.95

Graphics

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DOS Boss

17.95

GPLE

30.95

Mini Pix #1

19.95

Power Sprint

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Silicon Salad

17.95

Tip Disk #1

14.95

Typefaces

15.95

Borland International

Turbo Game Works (Reg. cpm)

27.95

Turbo Pascal 3.0 (Reg. cpm)

44.95

Turbo Tool (Reg. cpm)

36.95

Turbo Tutor

26.95

Broderbund

Animat

43.95

Dazzle Draw

39.95

Print Shop

32.95

Print Shop Companion

27.95

Print Shop GL 1,2,3 (ea)

18.95

Print Shop Refill Paper

17.95

Type

29.95

Central Point

Copy II +

24.95

Data Transforms

Fontnx

56.95

Font Set(s) (ea)

14.95

Funk

Sideways

36.95

Microsoft

Applesoft Compiler

107.95

Basic Compiler

244.95

Fortran-80

129.95

Mindscape

Mister Pixel's

Cartoon, Paint Set (ea)

25.95

Color Me (Main)

24.95

Hugga, Rainbow, Shirt &

Tink Tonk (ea)

12.95

Polarware

Complete Graph. Sys.

32.95

Graph. Magician Paint/Anim.

32.95

Graph. Magician Jr.

16.95

Pinpoint

Document Checker

41.95

Infomerge

53.95

Modem Enh. Kit

22.95

Pinpoint (New)

59.95

Pinpoint Ram Exp.

22.95

Pinpoint Spellchecker

41,95

Pinpoint Toolkit

30.95

Point to Point

79.95

RunRun

30.95

Roger Wagner

Merlin Assembler

43.95

Merlin Combo

70.95

Merlin Pro

61.95

Springboard

Certificate Maker

35.95

Newsroom

35.95

Newsroom Clip Art V1

20.95

Newsroom Clip Art V2

24.95

Newsroom Graphic Exp V1

27.95

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Barrens

Computer SAT

CBS

Adventure Master

Body in Focus, Coast to Coast,

Dinosaur Dig (ea)
Goren's Bridge
Mastering SAT
Success Series (ea)

Davidson Associates
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Spell-It, Work Attack (ea)
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Homeworker
Speed Reader II

Designware

29.95

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EDUCATIONAL/PERSONAL

Electronic Arts

Cut & Paste 25.95

Financial Cookbook 35.95

Movie Maker 30.95

Fisher Price
Alpha Build, Logic Levels, Up &

Add-Em, Seaspeller (ea) 1S
Manon-Moon, Jungle Reading, Peter R.-
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Harcourt Brace
SAT 5A
Hayden

SAT Math, Verbal (ea) 38
Learning Company

Addition Mag., Magic Spells, (ea) 25.95
Bumble Plot, Games, Reader Rabbit,

Moptown Hotel, Parade (ea) 28.95

Gertrudes Secrets, Puzzle (ea) 30.95

Juggle's Rainbow 21.95

Robot Odessey. Rocky's Boot (ea) 33.95
Meca

Managing Your $ 111.95
Milliken

Addition, Division (ea) 26.95

Word Processor 48.95
Mindscape

Bank St. Story B. 30.95
Keyboard Cadet. Lusher Profile (ea) 28.95

Perfect Score 48.95
Pinpoint

Added Menue's (ea) 14.95

Micro Cookbook 30.95

Random House
Charlie Brown Series +

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Scarborough
Boston Diet, Personal Net Worth (ea) 54.95

Figures & Formulas 21.95

Mastertype New, Filer (ea) 28.95

Run For $, Song Writer (ea) 29.95

Writing Wizard 49.95

Simon & Schuster
Chem Lab, Great Paper Air'P. (ea) 28.95

JK Lasser $ Mng. 51.95

Lovejoy's SAT 45.95

Make A Match 22.95

Math Buster 22.95

Typing Tutor III 35.95

Webster's Spelling Ck. 42.95

Spinnaker
Adv. Creator, Trains, Sum Ducks,

Counting Parade, Alpha. Zoo (ea) 23.95
BW File/Report, BW Spread., WP (ea) 40.95

Delta Drawing 27.95

Fraction Fever 20.95

Grandma's House 21.95

Homework Math/Word 29.95

Homework Writing 29.95

In Search of 24.95

Kids on Keys 19.95

Kid Writer 21.95

Kindercomp 19.95

Math Busters 23.95

Rhymes & Riddles 19.95

Snooper Trooper!, 2 (ea) 24.95

Story Machine 27.95

Springboard

Early Games 23.95

Easy ABC, Mask Parade (ea) 28.95

Fraction Factory 22.95

Music Maestro 23.95

Piece Cake Math 23.95
Puzzle Master, Rainbow P.,

Stickers (ea) 24.95
Time works

Evelyn Wood Reader 46.95

Silvia Porter $ Planner 73.95

Swiftcalc w/Sideways 103.95

Xerox/Weekly Reader

Sticky Bear Series (ea) 26.95

GAMES SOFTWARE

Remember

Spellcopter, Spellakazam (ea)

46.95
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Access

Beach-Head II 28.95
Accolade

DamBusters, Fight N.. Hard Ball, Laws

of West. Psi 5. Sundog 2.0 (ea) 23.95
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Alter Ego 34.95

Borrowed Time 27.95

Countdown to Shut. 27.95

Designer's Pencil 27.95

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H.E.R.O.

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Master Lamps

Mindshadow

Pitfall

Road Race
Rock N Bolt
Space Shuttle
Star Lge. Baseball
Tracer Sanction
Zenii

Avalon Hill

Under Fire

Avant Garde

Dave Winfield
Theisman's ProFootball

Blue Chip

Barron, Millionaire, Squire,
Tycoon (ea)

Broderbund

Art of War
Captain Goodnight
Championship Lode R.
Fantavision
Karateka
Mask of Sun
Serpent's Star
Toy Shop

Where in the World . . .

CBS
Murder by Doz.

Datasoft

Alternate Reality
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Mr Do, Zoro, Pooyan (ea)
Dallas Quest
Dig Dug

Never Ending Story
21 2B Baker St.

Electronic Art

Adv. Const. Set
Age of Adv.
Amnesia
Archon

Archon II: Adept
Bard's Tale
Carrier's At War
Cavers Calisto
Chessmaster
Europe Ablaze
Golden Oldies
Lords Conquest
Mail Order Monster
Murder Zindernaul
Music Const. Set
1 on 1
Orge

Pinball Const. Set
Racing Dest. Set
Reach For Stars
Realm of Impossibility
7 Cities Gold
Sky Fox
Super B. Dash
Tim Leary
Wilderness
Wizard

Epyx

Baseball

Destroyer, Champ Wrestling (ea)

Eidolon

Fax

Football
Gl Joe
Koronis Rift
Mission Impossible
Pitstop

Summer Games I, II (ea)
Temple Asphair
Winter Games

Sargon III

Cutthroats
Deadline
Enchanter
Fooblitsky
Forbidden Quest
Hitchhiker's G.
Infidel

Mind Voyaging
L Planet Fall

Hayden
Infocom

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Seastalker

Starcross

Sorcerer

Spell Breaker

Suspect

Suspendo

Wishbringer

Witness

Zork 1

Zork 2,3 (ea)

Baseball

Micro Lge. Sports
Microprose

Aero Jet
Conflict Vietnam
Crusade in Europe
Decision Desert
F-15 Strike
Gunship

NATO Commander
Silent Service
Solo Flight

Mmdscape

American Challenger
Deja Vu

D. Francis High Staker
Forbidden Castle
Halley Project
James Bond Gold F.
James Bond View K.
Racter

Rambo Part II
Stephen King Mist
Tinka's Mazes
Tinka's Sub. Fair
Tink's Adventure
Tonk in Buddy Bots
Tuk Goes Town
Voodoo Island

One Step

Golf's Best Pinehurst
Golf's Best St. Andrew's Old

Origin

Autoduel
Moebius

Ultima 3 & 4 (ea)

Polarware

Coveted Mirror, Crimson Cr. (ea)
Oo-Otopos, Swords Kadash,
Xyphus (ea)

Sierra On Line

Black Caldron
King's Quest I. II (ea)

Simon & Schuster

Frogger 3 Deep
Spy Hunter
Super Zaxxon
Tapper

Sir Tech

Rescue Raiders
Wizardry 1
Wizardry 2
Wizardry 3,4 (ea)
Wizprint

Gato

Spectrum
Strategic Simulations

Baltic 85
Battalion Commander
Battle Group
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Carrier Force
Colonial Conquest
Computer Baseball
Field of Fire
Gemstone Warrior
Geopolitique 1990
Germany 85
Imperium Galactum
Kampfgruppe
Mission Crush 50
Nam

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Panzer Grendier
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Retorger 88
Rings of Ziffin
USAAF
War in Russia

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November 1986

WHAT

DO THESE PEOPLE
HAVE IN COMMON?

by Cynthia E. Field

Data bases are boring, right? Not to Luke McCollum,
owner of Centennial Mobile Homes in Farmington,
New Mexico. Luke's dealership is a one-man, million-
dollar-a-year operation. He's taken on all management, sales,
and clerical duties. Too much for one person to handle? Not if
your assistant is an Apple II data-base program.

Let's take a look at seven data-base packages (see the
accompanying Product Information sidebar and ratings
Table) that can help you and your Apple save time and make
money (maybe data bases aren't so boring after all).

What Is a Data Base, Anyway?

What computer enthusiasts sometimes loosely refer to as
"data bases" are known formally as data-base manage-
ment systems (DBMS's). The data base itself is the mass
of information these programs store— like stamps in a
collection.

According to Rick Minicucci, writing in Today's Office
("Database Management Systems: Keys That Unlock the
Power of Data," July 1986), data-base management pro-
grams fall into three categories: single-file, intermediate,
and relational.

The first type, represented by six of the seven programs
surveyed in this article, can work only with information
stored in a single file— like the U.S. Commemorative
stamps you keep in a separate album. A single-file pro-
gram can electronically rearrange your list of stamps or
any information about them, such as number of perfora-
tions, presence of watermarks, and market value. You can
physically remove all the commemoratives from your al-
bum, sort them by issue date, and reinsert them, but a
DBMS performs these tricks much more quickly and in a
more sophisticated way.

What happens if you decide to combine two albums
into one, adding your Canadian commemoratives to those
from the U.S.? In the physical world, you'd have to re-
move the stamps from each album and reinsert them into
a larger one, labeled North American Commemoratives.

When you want to combine files or transfer information
from one data-base file to another, an intermediate or rela-
tional DBMS can save you time and trouble— not to men-
tion a lot of stamp hinges. If the files are similar in the
type of information they hold, though, you may not need
a high-powered DBMS: Most single-file DBMS's (of the
seven reviewed here, all but Filer's Choice and Better-
Working File & Report) can merge two files into one.

Nine to Five is the only one of the seven programs in
this article that could be classified as an intermediate data
base. An intermediate program goes beyond merging two
separate files: You can merge selected information from
one file into another. If, for example, you had a file of
U.S. stamps and a file of stamps from other countries, you
could select the North American stamps from the latter
and merge them with the U.S. stamps.

What If I Don't Collect Stamps?

Most of us tend to be acquisitive— the closets, garages,
and basements of America prove we're pack rats. You
may not collect stamps or coins, but you probably have a
growing book or compact-disc library.

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How about the assorted slips of paper, index cards, and
newspaper clippings in the kitchen drawer to which you
facetiously refer as the "recipe file"? A computerized
cookbook can give you a clean printout whenever you
need one so that you don't have to read through aged
Worcestershire sauce and grease stains. An electronic
food file can suggest a meal you can whip up when the
only items in your refrigerator are leftover liverwurst, day-
old pizza, and clam juice of unknown vintage.

In a more serious vein, a growing family needs to keep
track of health records, household inventory (in case of
theft or fire), and tax information. Any DBMS, including the
no-frills BetterWorking File & Report and Filer's Choice,
can help you manage these mundane but vital affairs.

Can a Data-Base Program Help My Social Life?

It might be amusing to computerize your "little black
book," but it probably wouldn't justify the price of DBMS
software. Still

In other ways, a DBMS can augment your enjoyment of
the clubs and organizations to which you belong. Even
your bowling league needs to keep track of who the club
kingpin is and who leads in gutter balls. Some profes-
sional baseball teams, like the New York Yankees, keep
track of player statistics on an Apple II (see "The Tenth
Player," July 1986, p. 42). Little League and Babe Ruth
League teams can do the same.

Have you ever been asked to organize a class reunion?
Any DBMS can keep track of class members, addresses,
and personal information. Some computerized filing pro-
grams, like ProFiler and Nine to Five, can even help you
prepare personalized form letters telling each member
about planned reunion activities.

About a year ago, Richard Ethier, an electrician from
Narragansett, Rhode Island, purchased an Apple lie. Be-
fore he could say "Space Invaders," the Rhode Island
chapter of the Disabled Veterans of America elected him
adjutant— which meant he was corralled into setting up a
data base of the group's approximately 220 members. He
used Bank Street Filer to do the job.

According to Richard, "If you're not a typist, entering all
this information is a monumental job— but it's worth it in
the end."

How Can a Data-Base Program Make Money for Me?

Some businesses such as Dow Jones, The Source, and
CompuServe make money by selling the information in
their data bases. Unless you have hard-to-come-by, pro-
prietary, or particularly valuable information, you probably
won't be able to market yours.

How you use your data base can help you improve
profits, though. Whether your business is small or con-
glomerate-sized, DBMS's help you organize information
and make better decisions. The improvement you see in
your bottom line is an indirect measure of your success.

Cynthia Villari and Sister Catherine Fazzina have only re-
cently begun computerizing the Rolfe Square Counseling
Center in Cranston, Rhode Island. Their business sponsors
seminars and provides professional counseling services for
children, adults, and couples.

In the past, Sister Catherine used her typewriter and a
stack of envelopes whenever she wanted to send an-
nouncements to professionals, paraprofessionals, and lay
people on the Center's mailing list. Just when things be-
gan to get unwieldy— the mailing list has grown to 550—
Sister Catherine discovered what an Apple He and
PFS:File could do for the Center: She's added codes to

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each person's record so that she can generate labels for
a select list of associates.

Having used an older, DOS 3.3 version of PFS:File, Sis-
ter Catherine is ready to switch to the more powerful, cur-
rent ProDOS version, which comes bundled with PFS:Report.
(She plans to have the program automatically sort by zip
code to take advantage of bulk-mail rates.) And Sister
Catherine won't have to retype her data base to change
from DOS to ProDOS: Software Publishing provides a free
utility program, PFS:Convert, that takes care of that task.

Whether you sell a service, as the Rolfe Square Coun-
seling Center does, or a product, a DBMS can help you
find customers, handle their needs, and keep them com-
ing back.

Luke McCollum, the mobile-home dealer in New Mexico,
uses Nine to Five to prospect— for the "gold" that's al-
ready in people's pockets.

If you're not on enough mailing lists, stop in and visit
Luke— he'll gladly add you to his. He can use his 300-
baud Apple modem to call the credit bureau's data bas
to "pre-qualify" you, too.

If you seem a likely candidate for a mobile home, Lu
will follow up your visit with a phone call or letter. If yoi
buy, Luke's Apple He will generate a contract and trans
you from the "Prospect" file to the "Customer" file.
Luke's data-base program is among the friendliest— it a
even remind him to send you a birthday card!

Nine to Five, the Program

Unlike the other six programs described in this article,
Nine to Five can perform all these tasks— and more—
without integrating with another product. With flexible,
easy-to-use features, Nine to Five is really three programs
in one. Besides the filing system, a report generator and
word processor are built in.

Probably anything you want to do with a data base you
can do with Nine to Five. Creating, printing, and storing
employee wage and salary records are a snap. It's just as
easy to send personalized letters to delinquent members
of your condominium association to let them know how
much they're in arrears.

Like all data-base programs described in this article,
Nine to Five can perform calculations on information con-
tained in data-base records. Unlike the others, Nine to
Five can even "calculate" text, a feature known as text
concatenation, through which information you've entered in
"First Name" and "Last Name" categories, for instance, is
"added" together so that the whole name is displayed in
reports and letters.

Nine to Five is particularly well suited for business, es-
pecially sales operations. The program's "conditional para-
graphing" feature lets you write a form letter, then go into
the data base and select the specific clients you want to

November 1986

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Each Z-80 Plus comes with our CP/M Ram Drive software, enabling
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receive the letter (for example, customers who are two or
more months behind in their payments).

Most programs for the Apple II come in one version,
but Nine to Five is custom-tailored to your hardware. The
basic edition requires 128K and two floppy drives. Other
versions are available for hard-disk drive and UniDisk 3.5
systems. (According to the company, Nine to Five isn't
written in ProDOS, but still supports the UniDisk 3.5: An
alternate disk-operating system called DOS 3.5 allows the
partitioning of a UniDisk 3.5 disk into two DOS volumes.)

Some versions, like Luke McCollum's, require 51 2K or
even 1 megabyte of RAM expansion. Cards recommended
by Nine to Five include Apple's Memory Expansion board,
Applied Engineering's RamWorks series, and Legend In-
dustries' E' Card (see "Two Roads to Memory Expan-
sion," August 1986, p. 46, for a discussion of Apple II
RAM expansion). The frequent disk-drive access the 128K
version of Nine to Five requires also warrants an accelera-
tor card, such as Applied Engineering's TransWarp.

Nine to Five has the worst— and at the same time the
best— support program I know. First, Nine to Five is copy-
protected (a backup is free and is included in the pack-
age). While the company's policy isn't yet set in stone,
Glenda Survance, a spokeswoman at Nine to Five, tells me
that support is free for the first 30 days. After that, support
will cost you $60 per hour (six-minute minimum charge).

Now, the good news. To encourage as many people as
possible to try the program, Nine to Five Software pro-
vides free demo disks. The actual program comes with a
six-month money-back guarantee. How many software
companies offer the actual program on approval?

AppleWorks

Nine to Five's primary competitor in the marketplace is
Apple's highly successful integrated program, AppleWorks,
which includes a data-base program, a word processor,
and a spreadsheet generator— all on one program disk.

While AppleWorks' data base isn't nearly as capable as
Nine to Five in filing, searching, sorting, and reporting,
AppleWorks enjoys the edge because it's easier to learn
and requires less hardware— a 64K Apple He with just one
floppy drive, for instance. (That configuration is slow and
limited, but it runs.)

Some people prefer the convenience of having one pro-
gram that "does it all" in terms of preparing documents,
keeping data bases, and creating spreadsheets.

A number of publishers market useful enhancements for
AppleWorks. Megahaus' ReportWorks adds advanced re-
porting capabilities to the AppleWorks data base (see our
review, September 1986, p. 32). In fact, ReportWorks turns
AppleWorks into the only quasirelational Apple data-base
program available at this writing (although the new Foun-
dation package claims to be— see our review in an up-
coming issue). ReportWorks can extract information from a
number of AppleWorks files— not just merge the informa-
tion, but manipulate it with built-in mathematical functions
or user-created formulas. ReportWorks doesn't coexist with
AppleWorks and therefore can't automatically update all
pertinent files as a true relational data base can. For ad-
vanced reporting features using AppleWorks data-base
files, though, ReportWorks has no peer.

To ReportWorks, add AutoWorks (see our review in this
issue, p. 40) or MacroWorks (see Editors' Choice, August
1986, p. 112), and AppleWorks is even more powerful.
These programs let you create shortcut commands called
macros, which speed you through the sometimes tedious
key-pressing process. AutoWorks also lets you use a mouse

November 1986

Nine to Five:
Filer, report
generator, and
word processor
all in one.

for cursor control within menus and records in AppleWorks.
And don't forget Pinpoint with its desktop accessories— in-
cluding the Spelling Checker (see "Desktop Power,"
March 1986, p. 34, and Reviews, October 1986, p. 27).

For casual small-business use— tasks such as maintain-
ing a mailing list or keeping employee records— Apple-
Works probably suffices. If you want a data base to keep
track of receivables and inventory (and automatically gen-
erate invoices, statements, or purchase orders), Apple-
Works by itself is inadequate.

PFS:File and PFS:Report

Originally packaged separately and priced at $125 each,
PFS:File and Report are now bundled together for $125, or
with PFS:Write (a word-processing program with spelling
checker) and PFS: Plan (a spreadsheet program) for $250.

Many veteran Apple II owners cut their teeth on
PFS:File when it was known simply as PFS (Personal Fil-
ing System). In those days, this very basic filer was con-
sidered pretty spiffy. How things change!

Today, we want programs that can search, sort, and re-
port in more sophisticated fashion. We also want to be
able to modify our record format. All these features are
standard in the "new" PFS:File.

The menu setup used throughout the PFS series is con-
sistent and easy to understand. Like the other programs
reviewed here, PFS:File and PFS:Report help you custom-
ize your reports in both content and format. These pro-
grams can also perform calculations on selected data.

One of PFS:File's strengths is its ability to integrate with
other PFS programs. You can import budget data from
Plan into File, where you can rearrange and reformat
them, then add them to a Write document.

The ProDOS-based PFS programs require 128K of RAM
and one floppy drive, though two are recommended for
easier sorting by PFS:Report. The PFS series also sup-
ports the UniDisk 3.5.

ProFiler

Another file-and-report program in the $100-and-up cate-
gory is ProFiler, from PM Software. The noncopy-protected
floppy disk contains an experimental version of ProDOS
for quicker record retrieval. I found program loading slow,
however.

ProFiler requires at least 64K and one floppy drive. The
program is compatible with the UniDisk 3.5 and the Sider
and ProFile hard-disk drives. As a rule of thumb, Pro-
Filer— like other Apple DBMS's— lets you store more than
1000 records on a floppy disk and tens of thousands of
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If you own AppleWriter 2.0 (the ProDOS version) you'll
appreciate ProFiler's ability to export mailing-list information
to an AppleWriter file for mail merging.

ProFiler's appearance is traditional, and its command
structure will be most appealing to Apple II Plus owners.
Instead of using an apple key, Apple lie and lie owners
have to use the control key to execute commands. Some
programs, like Spinnaker's BetterWorking File & Report, let
lie and lie users press an apple key, while II Plus owners
press the control key.

BetterWorking File & Report

When I first reviewed BetterWorking File & Report (Sep-
tember 1985, p. 75), I criticized its scrambling of the infor-
mation I had laboriously typed into a file consisting of
members of my high school's alumnae association. I'm
pleased to report, though, that this major flaw has been
eliminated.

BetterWorking File & Report can be integrated with other
members of the BetterWorking series: Word Processor (see
our review in the May 1986 issue, p. 98) and Spreadsheet
(September 1985, p. 75). At $59.95, File & Report seems
to be a bargain. Unfortunately, the program is copy-pro-
tected. A backup costs $12, bringing the price to more
than $70.

File & Report is relatively easy to learn and use. The
trickiest part is remembering the somewhat cryptic codes
you use to perform searches and to sort and print infor-
mation in your reports. It's difficult, too, to judge how wide
a column you need to accommodate different fields of in-
formation. You may forget that Mary's maiden name was
Wojciechowski and that she no longer lives at 3221 East
Legend Rock Road; when your report is printed, you may
wonder who Mary Wojciechow is and where 3221 East
Leg is.

With a little advance planning on paper, perhaps you
can avoid these hassles, though you may prefer programs
like Bank Street Filer or AppleWorks, which tell you the
column-width settings you need.

BetterWorking File & Report is the only program re-
viewed here that runs on that sometimes unappreciated
workhorse, the 48K Apple II Plus with one disk drive.
Happily, Spinnaker Software hasn't forgotten those who,
for one reason or another, didn't need to jump on the
hardware-upgrade bandwagon.

Bank Street Filer

If ever there was a supremely easy, reasonably flexible,
surprisingly capable DBMS, Bank Street Filer is it. Both
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ond drive isn't required and is probably not even useful.

You'd think that a low-priced ($69.95) program would be
bereft of features. Not so. Bank Street Filer has a large
number of built-in capabilities, cleverly disguised and sim-
plified by a natural-language interface. In short, Bank
Street Filer speaks English— unlike any other DBMS re-
viewed in this article.

You won't have to learn any commands (there are a few
mnemonic apple-key commands if you want to bother with
them); you don't even have to know what to do next— the
program prompts you when you make an operational
mistake.

Unlike Spinnaker's BetterWorking File & Report, Broder-
bund's program lets you change the record layout without
losing data you've already entered.

Searching is a breeze. The program prompts you by dis-
playing pop-up windows containing words like is, is not,
starts with, ends with, contains, and so forth. The "selection
sentence" you create can include more than one sort crite-
rion. For example, you could search for all Apple user-group
members living in Flushing, New York, who are plumbers.

So why is Richard Ethier, adjutant for the Rhode Island
Disabled Veterans of America, switching from Bank Street
Filer to AppleWorks? Now that its membership records are
fairly complete, the group is ready to send out notices.
While it can create all sorts of columnar reports, Bank Street
Filer can't print mailing labels.

To do that, Richard would have to purchase Broderbund's
mailing-list management program, Bank Street Mailer. It's of
the same high quality as Bank Street Filer and Writer, but it
costs an additional $69.95.

There's another consideration: Richard already owns
AppleWorks. And, quite frankly, now that he has a year's
computing experience under his belt, he's tired of respond-

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ing to the many prompts Bank Street Filer presents. Even if
you accept all the defaults (usually Y for yes), you have to
respond to about ten questions before you can print a
simple report.

Filer's Choice

The new kid on the block among DBMS's is Filer's
Choice, a $49.95 program you can purchase as part of Ac-
tivision's Personal Choice Collection (see "Your Choice" in
this month's New Products section, p. 152). At $119.95, this
software library contains, in addition to Filer's Choice, a
word processor (Writer's Choice) and a spreadsheet pro-
gram (Planner's Choice).

Like Bank Street Filer and BetterWorking File & Report,
Filer's Choice is appropriate for casual personal use. The
program requires only 64K and one floppy drive. Like Bank
Street Filer and BetterWorking File & Report, Filer's Choice
offers either a 40-column or 80-column display.

The program is menu-driven, and creating reports is
somewhat easier than it is with Spinnaker's program. For
instance, if you don't want to guess the number of spaces a

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column needs to display complete data, the program has a
default setting that calculates the longest piece of informa-
tion and adds one space.

Unlike Bank Street Filer, Filer's Choice requires you to
memorize commands. To make matters worse, they're
largely non-mnemonic. This program offers less flexibility
than some others do; for instance, you can add new fields,
but you can't delete old ones.

Like BetterWorking File & Report, Filer's Choice is copy-
protected, and a backup costs you extra— in this case, $15.
When you add it all up, these two programs, which at first
appear to be less costly than Bank Street Filer, are actually
just as expensive.

Activision should be complimented, though, on other as-
pects of its support policy. Consulting is free, and the com-
pany's toll-free telephone number is clearly displayed in the
manual.

Getting Started

Only you can determine the level of sophistication you
need in a data-base management system; you'll have to
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Turn your Apple II into a home
controller: inCider looks at seven
systems that offer you convenience,
security, and energy savings.

by Tan A. Summers

If you've always thought your computer could do more
than process words and calculate numbers, you're
right. Your Apple II can keep you safe and warm and
save you money on your heating bill in the process. Whether
your goal is to detect burglars or just to turn on your coffee
maker 15 minutes before you get up in the morning, a home-
control system adds a new dimension to your computer.

Why Home Control?

There are as many reasons to automate a home as
there are computer buffs to do it. Security is one. Chang-
ing levels of light and sound make a house seem lived in
while you're away, and motion sensors and magnetic
switches on doors and windows can detect intruders.
Smoke alarms and humidity detectors warn of fire and
flood; an alarm or telephone dialer can then alert your
neighbors or an answering service.

Home control saves energy dollars, too. In summer the
computer can close drapes and regulate air conditioning.
In winter it can set the thermostat back, start your electric
blanket, and operate a sophisticated solar-heating arrange-
ment. Close attention to heat and humidity coupled with
direct control of fans and heating, ventilation, and air con-
ditioning (HVAC) equipment keeps you more comfortable
while reducing energy costs. Also, the computer will remem-
ber to turn off those lights your children continually forget.

Of course, you could perform all those tasks yourself.
But wouldn't you rather have the computer turn up the
heat half an hour before you get up? Convenience is one
popular reason for automating a home. A sensor keyed to
the garage door can turn on a welcoming light whenever
the door opens after dark, or turn lights on as you enter a
room and switch them off after you leave. And you can

save steps by using a handheld transmitter that controls
lights and appliances at the touch of a button.

How Does It Work?

An environmental controller connected to your Apple
works by sending signals along existing electrical wiring to
receiver units throughout your house. The accompanying
software is often easier to use than the average game pro-
gram, so system setup is a snap. Once you've programmed
the controller, your computer is free for other tasks.

Most receivers need only be plugged into wall sockets,
with lamps or appliances plugged into the receivers in
turn. If you want to control lights that are operated by wall
switches, you can replace standard switches and recepta-
cles with receiver-equipped models. Receiver units and
simple transmitters can be purchased from many sources,
including Sears, Heath, and Radio Shack, as well as di-
rectly from the manufacturer, X-10 (USA). (See the accom-
panying Product Information sidebar for a list of sources
of computer-programmable controllers and corresponding
software.) All require that your computer be equipped with
a serial port— usually the Apple Super Serial card in the
case of the lie.

Controllers differ in the level of automation they can ef-
fect. Noncomputerized transmitters send signals only once
or twice a day to 16 or fewer sets of lights or appliances.
Computer-programmed controllers can usually operate as
many as 256 sets of devices and can send multiple signals.

More significant is the ability of some computerized con-
trollers to respond to their environment. For instance, heat,
light, humidity, and motion sensors inside and outside your
house let the controller turn your lights on only if the room
is dark, and your sprinkler system only if the ground is

inCider

"Controllers differ in the level of
automation they can effect; some
can respond to their
environment."

dry. Sensors can do double duty: The same motion detec-
tor that turns on the bathroom light when your four-year-
old gets up during the night can trigger an intruder alarm
while you're away on vacation.

Choosing a System

A computerized controller that simply sends signals is
inexpensive and simple to install, since you can easily un-
plug and move receivers. Arrangements that include sen-
sors require more planning and cost more, especially if
the sensors contain radio transmitters. Depending on how
much control you want, installation may be more complex,
too. Standard sensors need to be hard-wired— connected
directly to the controller using lengths of electrical wire.

Let's take a look at seven home-control systems, each
representing a different price category and level of auto-
mation. The X-10 Powerhouse and Bi-Comm's PC-1 and
Autocrat LCS provide the most basic type of home con-
trol: remote control of lights and appliances without input
from external sensors. In the next category, systems that
provide some response to sensors but are fairly simple to
install, is the CyberLynx SmartHome. CompuHome's
TomorrowHouse II, Remote Measurement's ADC-1 , and
Hypertek's Home Brain are more powerful yet, capable of
monitoring a number of remote sensors in a highly per-
sonalized control system.

Six controllers (not the ADC-1) come with built-in clock
and battery backup. All allow multiple schedules for differ-
ent circumstances, and most include software in the pack-
age. Note that most systems require that you purchase
sensors and receiver modules separately.

Simple Systems

The X-10 Powerhouse comes in modules— the controller
in one package, software and cables for both the lie and
lie in another. To use Powerhouse with the lie, you'll also
need expanded memory and an 80-column card.

Powerhouse can regulate up to 256 devices and gives
you push-button control over eight lights. It's handicapped
by a lack of sensor input, but it's an excellent choice for
the homeowner on a budget. Powerhouse provides conve-
nience rather than energy saving or security.

The software is easy to use and surprisingly powerful.
With your joystick, you select the room you want to pro-
gram first, then "install" lights and appropriate appliances
in each. Next you can describe the way you want each
device to behave. You can set control sequences to oper-
ate just once or on a regular basis, and you can easily
monitor or change them. An optional security mode lets
you indicate the lights you want the controller to turn on
or off— at approximate rather than exact times, to make
the house look lived in while you're away.

The X-10 software is a bit arbitrary in deciding the num-
ber of rooms you can control and the types of devices
you can put into them. Rooms are predesignated as

kitchen, bedroom, and so on, with lights and appliance
choices appropriate for each. If you have more than four
bedrooms or have unusual lighting needs, you'll have to
customize the software yourself (a BASIC programming
utility is included).

Two other products that fall into the basic-control cate-
gory are Bi-Comm Systems' PC-1 and Autocrat LCS con-
trollers. The PC-1 is a plug-in expansion card that works
with Apple //e-type computers only, while the Autocrat
connects to an RS-232 port on either the lie or lie. The
PC-1 requires constant use of the computer, but you can
disconnect the Autocrat once you've used your computer
to program it. The PC-1 comes with comprehensive soft-
ware you can modify using BASIC. You must purchase
software for the Autocrat separately.

SmartHome: Intermediate Complexity

Convenience is the hallmark of the CyberLynx Smart-
Home system. You can use the controller, which comes
with a handheld transmitter, as is the minute you take it
out of the box. And, if you prefer, you can add an alarm
center, transmitter-equipped smoke alarms, emergency
auto-dialer, and personal-emergency signal devices.

The SmartHome system can control only 16 sets of de-
vices; most simple transmitters perform as well. This limita-
tion is balanced, however, by SmartHome's easily installed
sensor system. Since smoke alarms, door and window
sensors, and motion detectors all use radio signals to
communicate with the controller, no wiring is necessary.
The motion detector, which you can use either for security
or lighting control, also includes a light-sensing diode that
prevents lamps from being turned on unnecessarily.

The software is easy to use, but won't let you program
multiple signals. Scheduling is rigid, although monitoring or
altering it is easy. SmartHome provides no real control
over HVAC equipment, but a standard X-10 device that
"tricks" the thermometer can simulate it.

SmartHome's best asset is ease of installation. Since the
sensors don't require wiring, they're a good choice for
rented homes and apartments and for individuals with little
technical know-how. SmartHome's emphasis on security
also makes it appropriate for people who are most inter-
ested in that aspect of home control.

Advanced Control

TomorrowHouse II controls up to 256 devices, can send
a practically unlimited number of signals, and can receive
input from up to 22 digital switches and 29 sensors. Spe-
cially designed with HVAC control in mind, it uses relays
to manage up to eight zones of equipment— or you can
use some of these 64 relays instead to connect security
systems and other electrical devices. The software lets you
specify temperature and lighting for every area of your
house and lets you link day-to-day and weekly schedules
in any combination. Good documentation makes all of this

November 1986

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home-control system yourself."

less intimidating than it may sound.

The TomorrowHouse II package includes eight relays,
four thermistors (heat sensors), and five receiver modules.
You can obtain cables from your local electronics dealer.

This system is one of the best on the market. Its em-
phasis on HVAC control makes it a good choice for the
person interested in saving energy dollars, but it handles
security and convenience equally well. Its only drawbacks
are a higher price and more demanding installation re-
quirements. Since all sensors must be hard-wired to the
controller, this system seems most appropriate for houses
still under construction— or for the dedicated do-it-yourselfer.

TomorrowHouse gets some competition from at least two
other products that use sensor input extensively. One is
the Hypertek Home Brain, capable of receiving input from
up to 16 sensors and as many as 64 digital switches. It
can control eight relay outputs and 256 X-10-type receiv-
ers. Home Brain comes ready to use and doesn't even
require a computer. Complete software, however, lets you
use your Apple lie or He to personalize your automation
program.

Remote Measurement Systems provides a do-it-yourself-
er's version of a complete control system— the ADC-1. Its
software consists simply of a disk of subroutines you can
include in your own BASIC control program, plus printed
suggestions for using them. Less powerful than either the
Home Brain or TomorrowHouse II systems, ADC-1 can re-
ceive input from only four digital switches and 16 sensors; it
controls up to six relays. It costs only one-fourth as much as
either the Home Brain or TomorrowHouse II, though.

All three of these systems can use input from almost
any type of sensor and include provisions in their software
for adding new ones when they're invented.

The Bottom Line

Before you buy, take time to find out exactly what the
system you're considering can do— the number of devices
it can control, the sensors it can use. Software is impor-
tant, too. Unless you're a programmer, you'll be able to
use only the sensors your software allows. Find out what's
included with the system. You'll need a number of receiver
modules and sensors to set up a complex arrangement,
and you can often purchase them at a lower cost from a
consumer-electronics store than from the controller's
manufacturer.

Although your main consideration in choosing a system
should be the ultimate level of control and flexibility you
need, cost and ease of installation are important, too. The
computerized controller that just sends signals costs little
more than a push-button transmitter— it's a terrific bargain
for someone who wants to test the water before plunging
in. This is especially true because even the most powerful
controller uses identical receiver units as the core of
its system.

More automation generally means more equipment to in-
stall. If you know how to work safely with electricity, you
can probably set up even the most complex home-control
system yourself. If not, make sure your dealer includes in-
stallation costs in the system's purchase price, especially if
he has to connect HVAC equipment.

And that's really all there is to it: Plan your system care-
fully and set it up correctly. Now sit back and relax. After
all, that's why you bought it, isn't it?B

Tan Summers is a freelance journalist specializing in com-
puter-related topics. Contact her at CompuServe address
70177,1202.

Product Information

ADC-1

Remote Measurement
Systems

2633 East Lake Avenue
Seattle, WA 98102
(206) 328-2255
$499 ($449 standard)

Reader Service Number 324

Autocrat LCS
PC-1

Bi-Comm Systems
1779 Highway 8
Saint Paul, MN 55112
(612) 636-1643
$1300 (Autocrat LCS)
$165 (Autocrat software)
$355 (PC-1)

Reader Service Number 325

Home Brain

Hypertek
P.O. Box 13
Route 22 East
Whitehouse, NJ 08888
(201) 534-9700
$1850

Reader Service Number 326

Powerhouse

X-10 (USA)

185A Legrande Avenue
Northvale, NJ 07647
(201) 784-9700
$69.99

Reader Service Number 327

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(303) 444-7733
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I'Damiano the Wizard of Partestrada

Sherlock Holms: "Another Bow"

Baudvllle Video Vegas

Broderbund Breakers

Captain Goodnight & the

Islands of Fear
Championship Lode Runner or

Karateka
Mask of the Sun
Data East Karate Champ
DataSoft Alternate Reality
Bruce Lee. Conan, or Mr. Do
Mind Persuit or Crosscheck
The Goonies or Zorro
The Never Ending Story
Electronic Arts
Adventure Construction Set
Amnesia or Robot Rascals
Age Of Adventure or One-On-One
Arctic Fox or Ring Quest
Bard's Tale or Reach For The Stars
Bard s Tale II: The Destiny Knight
Battlefront or Make Your Own

Murder Party
Carriers At War or Europe Ablaze
ChessMaster 2000 or Ogre
Lords of Conquest
Music or Pinball Construction Set
7 Cities of Gold or Super Boulder Dash
SkyFox or Archon II
Software Golden Oldies or Dark Lord
Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror
EPYX

Ballblazer or Rescue on Fractulus
Championsnip Wrestling or Destroyer
G.I. Joe

Koronis Rift or The Eidolon
Summer Games II or Winter Games
Temple of Apshai Trilogy
World's Greatest Baseball Game
World"s Greatest Foojball Game
Firebird Licensees, Inc. Elite
Colossus Chess IV
Hayden Software Sargon III
Infocom A Mind Forever Voyaging
Cutthroats, Seastalker, or Ballyhoo
Deadline, or Starcross or SpellBreaker
Hitchhker's Guide or Trinity
Infidel or Sorceror
Witness. Planetfall, or Enchantor
Zork I, Wishbringer, or Fooblitzky
Zork II. Zork III. or Suspect
Micro League Sports
Micro League Baseball
General Manager/Owner
Microprose
Crusade in Europe or

Conflict in Vietnam
Decision in The Desert
F-15 Strike Eagle. Gunship or Aerojet
Gunshtp, Silent Service, or

Kennedy Approach
Solo Flight or Nato Commander
Mindscape Dick Francis' High Stakes
Forbidden Castle or Voodoo Island
James Bond: "A View To Kill"
James Bond: "Goldfinger"
Racter

24.00
20.00
36.00
20.00
20.00
23.00

25.00
32.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
20.00
36.00
24.00
24.00

22 00
25.00
25.00
18.00
29.00

23.00

23.00
25.00
24.00
28.00
23.00
23.00
23.00
23.00

34.00
31.00
11.00
28.00
31.00
34.00

28.00
34.00
28.00
28.00
11.00
11.00
28.00
24,00
24.00

25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
24,00
25.00
22.00
25.00
32.00
28.00
25.00
31.00
25.00
30.00
25.00
25.00
28.00

25.00
25.00

25.00
25.00
22.00

22.00
22.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
29.00

Rambo: "First Blood Part II" 25.00
Stephen King's "The Mist" 25.00
The American Challenge Sailing 25.00
The Halley Project 19.00
Omnitrend Software
Omnitrend's Universe I
Omnitrend's Universe II
One Step Software Golf Best Pinehurst
Golf's Best St. Andrews
Origin Systems Moebius
AutoDuel

Ultima III: Exodus or Ultima IV
Polarware

Expedition Amazon or Oo-Topos
Coveted Mirror, Xyphus or Transylvania
Sword of Kadash or Crimson Crown
Randam House Alpine Encounter
Tournament Bridge
Sierra On-Line Championship Boxing
Kings Quest or King's Quest II
The Black Cauldron
Simon & Schuster
Spy Hunter or Tapper
Star Trek (Kobayashi Alternative)
Sir-Tech Wizardry
Knight of Diamonds
Legacy of Llylgamyn
Rescue Raiders
Wiziprint

Usurper: The Mines of Qyntarr
Spectrum Holobyte Gato
Strategic Simulations

Battalion Commander or Objective Kursk 25.00
Battle For Normandy or Field of Fire 25.00
Battle Group 36.00
Battle of Antientam 30.00
Gemstone Warrior, or Wizard's Crown 24.00
Geopolitique 1990 or Rails West
Germany 1985 or Carrier Force
Imperium Galactum or Broadsides
Kampfgruppe or Reforger 88
NAM or Professional Tour Golf
North Atlantic '86
Phantasie II, or Panzer Grenadier
Ring's of Zilfin. or Colonial Conquest.
U.S.A.A.F. or Mech Brigade
War in Russia
Sublogic Flight Simulator II
Tellarium Agatha Christie: The Scoop
Amazon or Dragon World
Fahrenheit 451 or Shadow Keep
Nine Princess In Amber
Perry Mason: Mandarin Murders
Rendezvous with Rama
Windham Classics
Alice in Wonderland
Below The Root or

Swiss Family Robinson
Wizard Of Oz or Treasure Island

64.00
41.00
31.00
31.00
41.00
34.00
41.00

15.00
15.00
15.00
24.00
30.00
22.00
32.00
25.00

19.00
25.00
32.00
22.00
25.00
22.00
16.00
27,00
22.00

25.00
38.00
25.00
38.00
24.00
38.00
24.00
24,00
36.00
49,00
35.00
24.00
12.00
12.00
24.00
24 00
12.00

26.00

26.00
26.00

Utility/Language Software

Apple Computer

Apple II Instant Pascal 115.00

Apple Pascal V1.3 199.00
Beagle Brothers

MacroWorks or Beagle Basic 19.00

Beagle G.P.L.E. 26.00

Big U, Double Take, or Pro-Byter 18.50

D-Code. Extra K. or Power Print 21 .00

DiskQuick or I.O. Silver 16.00

Dos Bos or Silicon Salad 13 00

Fat Cat 18.50

Tip Disk #1 11.00

Pronto Dos or Utility City 15.50

Triple Dump 21.00

Borland Turbo Pascal 3.0 45.00

Turbo Database Tool Box 35.00

Turbo Tutor 22.00
Funk Software

Sideways Prodos & Dos 3.3 39.00
Meacom

UniDos (Dos 3.3 lor Ihe UntDrive) 28.00

Dually Software Bag of Tricks 1 1 32.00
Beneath Apple Dos or

Beneath Apple ProDos 13.00

Roger Wagner Merlin ProDos 65.00

Merlin Assembler 42.00

Merlin Combo Pack 69.00
Software Masters

Visible Computer: 6502 36 00
The Byte Works

ORCA/M Macro Assembler ProDos 59.00
Videx AppleWorks Modify Plus 128K 49 00
Vllberg Brothers

DMP Utilities llmageWriter or Epson) 35.00

Zedcor ZBASIC 65.00

Graphics Packages

Activision Gary Kitchen's Game Maker 32.00

Designer's Pencil 26 00
Bantam Software

Walt Disney Card & Party Shop 26.00

Walt Disney Comic Strip Maker 26.00

Baudvllle Blazing Paddles 29.00

Prince (C.ltoh or Epson) 52.00

Prince (ImageWriter ll-No Ribbons) 29.00

Pix-lt 29.00

Pix-lt Shape Library 1. 2. or 3 12.95

Take 1 34.00

Take 1 Programmer's Toolkit 39 00

Actors & Actions or Heros & Villains 18.00

Beagle Brothers Alpha Plot 21.00

Beagle Graphics 31.00

Flex Text or Frame Up 15,50

Font Mechanic or Minipix Disk #1 15.50

Shape Mechanic 21.00

Broderbund Toy Shop 39 00

Animate 44.00

Dazzle Draw 38.00

Print Shop Enhanced or Fantavision 32.00

Print Shop Companion 25 .00

Print Shop Graphics Library I, II. or 111 16.00

Print Shop Paper Refill 12.95

Data Transforms Fontrix 1.5 54,00

Font Paks 1-15 ea. 14 00

Electronic Arts Movie Maker 27.00
Penguin Software

New Complete Graphics System 26.00

The Graphics Magician 26,00

The Graphics Magician Jr. 14.00

Roger Wagner Printographer 26.00
Sensible Software

The Graphics Department 67.00
Simon & Schuster

Great INTL Paper Airplane Const. Kit 25.00

Springboard Newsroom 35.00

Certificate Maker 30.00

Newsroom Clip Art Collection Vol. 1 18.00

Newsroom Clip Art Collection Vol. 2 25.00

Graphics Expander Vol. 1 25.00
T& W Systems, Inc.

CadApple (Entry-Level Cad) 69.00

Unison World Printmaster 25.00

Art Gallery I 25.00

Art Gallery II or HI 19 00

Weekly Reader Stickybear Printer 23.00

Communications

Apple Computer Access // (lie, lie only) 62.00

Compuserve Compuserve Starter Kit 27.00

Dow Jones Dow Jones Membership Kit 22,00

Hayes Smartcom I 72.00

Hayes Terminal Pgm. (Smartmodem) 59.00

PBI Software Commworks {//e & //c) 65.00

Quark Terminus lie 62.00

Softronics Softerm II 125.00
United Software Industries

ASCII: Express Pro: Prodos or Dos 3.3 75.00

Business Software

Advanced Logic Systems SpellWorks 31 00

The Handlers (//+. lie, lie) 59.00

Apple Apple Works I lie. lie) 199 00

Apple Writer II 2.0 ProDos file, lie) 1 1 9 00

Quickfile (lie only) 79.00

Batteries Included Paper Clip 38 00
BPI Systems

BPI General Accounting ProDos 219.00

BPI AR/AP/PR or Inv. ProDos (ea.) 219.00
Broderbund

Bank Street Writer (lie. lie) or Speller 44.00

Bank Street Filer ( I2BK) or Mailer 44,00
Dow Jones Software

Dow Jones Membership Kit 22.00

Good Software Investor III 149.00

Amortizer III 56.00

Haba/Arrays Home Accountant 47.00

Home Accountant lie 45.00

HabaWorks 109.00

AppleWorks Buddies 71.00

Habacalc 'N' Graph 42.00

Haba Speller or HabaMerge 29.00

HabaFile 42.00
Human Edge Software

Communications or Management Edge 57 00

Mind Prober 28.00

Mind Over Minors 31.00

Sales or Negotiation Edge 57.00

Intuit Quicken 49.00
Living Videotext

Think Tank V1.1 111+ or lie) 79.00

Manzanita

BuslnessWorks

System Manager (Required) 65.00

GL/AR/AP/ or Inventory Control 249.00

Payroll Module 279.00
The Business Accountant

System Manager (Required) 65.00

GL/AR/AP/ or Inventory Control 195.00

Payroll Module 225.00
The Advanced Business Accountant

System Manager (Required) 65.00

GL/AR/AP/ or Inventory Control 249.00

Payroll Module 279.00

MECA Managing Your Money 119.00

Megahaus MegaWorks 79.00

ReportWorks 79.00

Thinkworks 79.00
Monogram Dollars and Sense

(II+. lie or lie) 72.00

Forecast (64K or 128K) 38.00

Nolo Press Will Writer (Version 2.0) 29.00

PBI Software Graphworks 1.3 45.00

Jeeves 29.00
Peachtree

Back To Basics Accounting System:

GL/AR/AP 99.00

Back To Basics GL. AP. AR 52.00
Personal Choice Software

Filler s Choice 35.00

Personal Choice Collection 75.00

Planner's Choice 35.00

Writer's Choice 35.00

Pinpoint Publishing Pinpoint 49.00

Pinpoint Spelling Checker 39.00

Pinpoint Document Checker 39.00

PinPoint Toolkit 28.00

Point To Point 75.00

Infomerge 52.00

RunRun 28.00

Pinpoint lie Upgrade Kit 23.00

Pinpoint Ram Enhancement 23.00

PinPoint Modem Enhancement 23.00
PM Software

ProFILER 2.1 69.00
Professional Software Fleet System 3 49.00

Integrated Word Processing.

Spell Checking & Thesaurus

Quark Catalyst lie V3.0 59 00

Word Juggler & Lexicheck He 59.00
Roger Wagner Publishing

Mouse Write Iver. 2.6.8) 89.00

The Write Choice 42.00
Sensible Software Bookends-ProDos 67.00

Sensible Grammer ProDos 56.00

Sensible Speller-Dos or ProDos 69.00

Sierra On-Llne Smart Money 52.00

Homeword Plus/ J28K) wISpeller 45.00
Simon & Schuster

JK Lasser's Income Tax 45.00'

Webster's Spelling Checker (ProDos) 38.00

Software Publishing

All Programs lor lie with 128K or lie

PFS: Workmates

(File/Reporl/Plan/Wrile) 149.00

PFS: Graph 76.00

PFS: File/Report Bundle 76.00

PFS: Write or Plan file, lie) 76.00

Sorclm/IUS SuperCalc 3a 105.00

Style Ware Multiscribe 46.00
Timeworks

Sylvia Porter's Financial Planner 62.00
VIP Software VIP Professional

(Lofus f-2-3 Work-Alike) 145.00
Word Perfect Corporation

WordPerfect V1.1 (lie & lie) 85.00

Educational Software

Addison Wesley Smart Eyes 38,00
Apple Apple Logo // 128K (lie. lie only) 85.00
Bantam Software

Fantastic Animals or Road Rally USA 25.00

Creative Contraptions 25.00
Barron's Computer SAT Revised Version 32.00

Baudville Guitar Wizard 18.00
Ted Bear Discovers.. .Rainy Day Games 18.00
Better Working

File & Report or Spreadsheet 38.00
Homework Helpers: Math Word Problems 32.00

Homework Helpers: Writing 32,00

Typing Made Easy 32.00

Word Processor 38.00
Broderbund

Science Tool Kit Master Module 45.00

Type! 29.00

Welcome Aboard Muppets! 25.00
Where in the World is Carmen,

San Diego? 26.00
Where in the USA is Carmen.

San Diego? 29.00

CBS Software Adventure Master 14.00

America Coast to Coast 23.00

Body in Focus or Dinosaur Dig 23.00

Forecast' or T-Rex 28.00

Goren's Bridge 45.00

Mastering The SAT 56,00

Success w/Algebra (ea.) 20.00

Success w/Math (ea.) 14.00
Davidson & Associates

Alge-Blaster, Classmate or Math Blaster 28.00

Grammer Gremlins 28.00

Homeworker 50.00

Speed Reader II 39.00

Speed Reader Data A, B. D, or D 1 1.95

Spell-It or Word Attack! 28.00
Designware

European Nations & Locations 29.00

Grammer Examiner 29.00

Remember 49.00

Spellicopter or Spellagraph 25,00

States & Traits or Mission Algebra 29.00

The Body Transparent 29.00
Fisher Price Alpha Build or Logic Levels 16.00

First Man on The Moon Math 26,00

Jungle Book Reading 26.00

Peter Rabbit Reading 26.00

Peter & The Wolf Music 26.00

Grolier Publishing EduCalc 32 00

Friendly Filer or Easy Graph 26.00

Science Island or Treasure Hunter 26.00
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich

Computer SAT 49,00
Intra corp. Inc.

Intracourse Analysis Module 36.00

Intracourse Compatibility Module 29.00
Intracourse Analysis & Compatibility

Module 59.00
Learning Company

Bumble Plot, Games, or Reader Rabbit 25.00

Gertrude's Puzzles or Secrets 28.00

Juggle's Rainbow 19.00

Magic Spells or Word Spinner 22.00

Math Rabbit or Writer Rabbit 25.00
Moptown Hotel. Parade, or Number

Stumper 25.00

Robot Odyssey I or Rocky's Boots 32.00

Mindscape Bank Street Storybook 32.00

Crossword Magic 39.00

Keyboard Cadet or Luscher Profile 25.00

Perfect Score SAT 62,00
Peachtree/Eduware Algebra 1. 2. 3, or 4 25.00

Algebra 5 & 6 32.00

Decimals or Fractions 25.00

Compu-Read (V 3.0) 19 00

Introduction to Counting 23.00

PSAT or SAT Word Attack Skills 1 9 00

Spelling Bee w/Reading Primer 26.00

Writing Skills 1. 2. 3, 4 or 5 26.00

PinPoint Micro Cookbook file or lie) 28.00
Appetizers, Desserts, or Soups & Salads 11.95
Randam House Charlie Brown's ABC's 20.00

Charlie Brown Typing is a Ball 20,00

Garfield Double Dares 20.00

Garfield Eat Your Words 20.00

Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head 20.00

Snoopy Writer or Fix-It 20.00

Sensible Software Report Card 34.00
Scarborough Systems

MasterType New & Improved 25.00

MasterType's Writer (5V*" or 3V?") 45 00

MasterType's Filer 25.00
Scholastic Wizware

Agent U.S.A. 25 00

Math Shop 31.00

Square Pairs 16.00

Microzine 1 23 00

Operation: Frog or Turtle Tracks 25.00

Logic Builders 25 00

Story Tree or Story Maker 25.00

In Connecticut Call 378-3662 or 378-8293

Simon & Schuster Chem Lab 25.00

Lovejoy's Preparation for SAT 39.00

Typing Tutor III 32.00

Kermit's Electronic Storybook 22.00
Spinnaker

Adventure Creator 19.00

Delta Drawing 25.00
Fraction Fever, Story Machine,

or Facemaker 17.00

Grandma s House or Rhymes & Riddles 17.00

In Search Of... 21.00

Kidwriter 25.00

Alphabet Zoo. Trains, or Math Busters 19.00

Kindercomp or Kids on Keys 19 00

Megabots 19.00

Snooper Troops Case I or II 21 .00
Springboard

Early Games or Stickers 21 .00

Fraction Factory or Make a Match 18.00

Mask Parade or Easy as ABC 24.00

Rainbow Painter or Puzzle Master 21.00

Terrapin Enhanced Terrapin Logo V3.0 64.00
Time Works

Evelyn Wood Dynamic Reader 44.00
Weekly Reader

Exploring Tables & Graphs 1 or 2 20.00

Pic.Builder 23.00
Stickybear Series: Sticky Bear ABC,

Car Builder, Basic, Basket Bounce,

Bop, Math, Math II, Numbers. Opposites,

Reading, Shapes, Spellgrabber,

Typing, & Townbuilder (each) 23.00

Modems

Anchor Automation

Signalman Express 1200 235.00

Signalman Lightning 2400 355.00

Volksmodem 12 179.00

Hayes Hayes Micromodem He 139.00

Hayes 300 Baud Smartmodem He 159.00

Hayes 300 Baud Smartmodem 139.00

Hayes 1200 Baud Smartmodem 369.00

Hayes 2400 Baud Smartmodem 579.00

Transet 1000 269.00

Novation Novation Apple Cat II 189.00

Novation 212 Apple Cat II 355.00

Novation 212 Upgrade 219.00

Novation 2400 Baud External 479.00
Prometheus

Pro Modem 1200 (External) 279.00
ProModem 1200G (Non Expandable) 199.00

Pro Modem 1200A (Internal) 249.00

Pro Modem 300c 89.00
Options Processor or Alphanumeric

Display 69.00
U.S. Robotics

U.S. Robotics Password 1200 199.00

U.S. Robotics Courier 2400 399.00
Zoom Telephonies Zoom/Modem He 105.00

Zoom/Modem He Plus 1 15.00

Accelerators/Ramcards
Z-80/80 Col.

Advanced Logic Systems

Add-Ram 16 65.00

Add-Ram 80/64 52.00
Apple Computer

Apple II Memory Expansion Card 225.00

Apple lie Extended 80 Col. Card 89.00

Apple lie Enhancement Kit 45.00
Applied Engineering

RamWorks III (64K to 3 MB) Call

RamFactor (256K to 1MB) Call

Phasor 1 11+ or lie) 215.00

Z-RAM lie (256 or 512K/ Call
Ramworks RGB Option & 16 Bit Option Call

TransWarp Accelerator Call

TransWarp 16 Bit Upgrade Call

ViewMaster 80 109.00

Z-80 Plus 109.00

Apricorn Apricorn 64K Extend-lt 75.00

Apricorn 16K Ramcard II+ 79.00
AST Research

MegaRamPlus W/64K 125.00

MegaRamPlus W/256K 179.00

SprintDisk W/256K 189.00

SprintDisk w/512K 269.00
Checkmate Technology

MultiRam CX r256K,l 149.00

MultiRam CX (512K) 189.00

MultiRam CX-Piggyback (000K) 199.00

MultiRam CX-Piggyback (2S6K) 219.00

MultiRam CX-Piggyback (512K) 229.00

MultiRam lle(128K) 129.00

MultiRam lie RGB (128K) 159.00

MultiRam lie (256K) 149.00

MultiRam lie RGB (256K) 179.00

MultiRam lle(512K) 179.00

MultiRam lie RGB (512K) 225.00

Zee-80A 55.00

Information Appliance SwyftCard 69.00

Micro Sci Micro Sci 80/64e 69.00

MCT MCT Speed Demon 1 55.00

Titan Industries Saturn 128K Ram 175.00

Accelerator lie 219.00

Multifunction Cards

Multi I/O Clock/Calendar 99.00

Multi I/O Clock/Calendar/2 Ser. Ports 139.00

Prometheus VERSAcard 129.00

Quadrant Multicore w/OK 149.00

Multicore W/256K 179.00
Specify Apple Or IBM RGB Cable:

Extended Multifunction Board (64K) 159.00

Extended Multifunction Board w/RGB 189.00

RGB Upgrade (Apple or IBM RGB) 45.00
Street Electronics

Business Card Parallel 179.00

Business Card Serial 159.00

Printer Interface Cards

Apple Apple Super Serial Card

115.00

Apricorn Apricord lie

54.00

Super Serial Card

92.00

Orange Micro Serial Grappler Plus

75.00

Grappler+

75.00

Buffered Grappler+

119.00

Grappler lie

79.00

Imagebuffer 64K

69.00

(For Imagewriter II Printer)

Hot Link

49.00

Ouadram

APIC Parallel Interface with Cable

69.00

APIC C/G Parallel interface w/Color Gr.

75.00

Serial Interface (AB-400)

71.00

Buffered Serial Interface (64K)

109.00

TextPrint Print-It! {Parallel or Serial)

132.00

Thlrdware Choice of Parallel. Serial

(ImageWriter 1), or Serial (ImageWriter II)

Finger Print Plus II+, lie. lie

89.00

Clock/Calendar

Peripherals

Applied Engineering

TimeMaster H.O.

99.00

BSR Interface

39.00

ile System Clock

65.00

Ouadram

Pro Dos Clock/Calendar Card

62.00

1 Creative Peripherals

1 Seiko Datagraph 2001 w/Time Trax

(//e or lie)

149.00

Ile System CLock

55.00

Street Electronics Livewire

70.00

Thunderware Thunderclock Plus

109.00

X-10 (USA) Inc.

X-10 Powerhouse Computer Interface

49.00

X-10 Wall Switch Module

18.00

X-10 Lamp Module

15.00

X-10 Appliance Module

15 00

Video Cards

Video 7

Color Enhancer Ile

119.00

Color Enhancer lie

89.00

Screen Enhancer lie

89.00

Screen Enhancer lie

49.00

Accessories

Kensington System Saver
Cool + Time
Curtis Diamond
Curtis Emerald
Curtis Ruby
Curtis Sapphire
Apple Mouse lie
Apple Mouse lie

Pico Universal Joystick II+, Ile, Ile
Hayes Mach II Joystick
Hayes Mach III Joystick
Kraft Ouickstick ile
Kraft Joystick Universal (//+ He, lie)
Koala Pad Plus w/Graphics Exhibitor
Trackhouse Keypad (He Standard)
Trackhouse Keypad

(Ile Programmable)
Mocking board A Board
Mockingboard C Board
Echo II Plus
The Cricket lie

Rainbow Paper Pak (300 Sheets)
ImageWriter Ribbon-Black
ImageWriter Ribbon-Color
ImageWriter II Color Ribbon
ImageWriter Rainbow Pack (6 Colors)
Environmental Software: Apple Skins
Apple lie or lie w/Monitor II Cover
Apple lie w/Color Monitor Cover
Apple Ile Professional System Cover
Apple lie, lie, or UniDisk Drive Cover

Blank Media

5%" Sfanfc Diskette!

BASF 5.25" SS/DD (box ot 10)
Elephant 5.25" SS/DD (box ol 10)
Verbatim 5.25" SS/DD (box ol 10)
Sony 5.25" SS/DD (box ol 10)
Maxell 5.25" SS/DD (box of 10)
Nashua 5.25 SS/DD (box ol 10)
Memorex 5.25" SS/DD (box of 10)
3M 5.25" SS/DD (box ot 10)
Dysan 5.25" SS/DD (box of 10/
3% " Blank Diskettes
BASF 3.5" DS/DD (box of 5)
Bulk (Sony) 3%" DS/DD (box of 10)
Centech 3y 2 " DS/DD Color Disks

(box ol 10)
Sony 3.5" DS/DD (box of 10)
Fuji 3.5" DS/DD (box ol 10)
Verbatim DS/DD (box of 10)
Maxell 3.5" DS/DD (box of 10)
3M 3.5" DS/DD (box ol 10)

19.00
21.00
23.00
7.00

10.50
10.50
10.50
10.25
10.25
12.50
13.00
12.00
15.99

14.00
24.00

24.00
27.00
26.00
28.00
28.00
28.00

Printers

Brother

HR-15XL (20cps) Daisywheel
HR-25 (23cps) Daisywheel
HR-35 (35cps) Daisywheel
TwinWriter 5
Citizen

120-D (120cps) W/NLQ 10" Carriage
MSP- 10 (160 cps) 10" Carriage
MSP- 15 (160 cps) 15" Carriage
MSP-20 (200 cps) 10" Carriage
MSP-25 (200 cps) 15" Carriage

195.00
299 00
399.00
329.00
489.00

Epson

LX-86 Call
FX-85 For Most

FX-286 Recent
EX-800/1O00 Low! Low!
LQ-2500 Prices
Juki

6000 (10 cps) Daisywheel/Par.
6100 (18 cps) Daisywheel/Par.
6200 (30 cps) Daisywheel/Par.
6300 (40 cps) Daisywheel/Par.
Okidata Okimate 20 Color Printer
Microline 182P ff20cps Dot Matrix 10"/
Microline 183P (120cps Dot Matrix 15")
Microline 192PP/us

(200cps Dot Matrix 10")
Microline 193PP/I/S

(200cps Dot Matrix 15")
Microline 292P (240cps Dot Matrix 10")
Microline 293P (240cps Dot Matrix 15")
Microline 192 Apple

(160CPS Dot Matrix 10")
Microline 193 Apple

(160cps Dot Matrix 15")
Panasonic

KXP-1080AP (100 cps)

ImageWriter Compatible
KXP-1080 (100 cps) NLQ Mode
KXP-1091 (120 cps) NLQ Mode
KXP-1092 (180 cps) NLO Mode
KXP-1592 (160 cps; NLQ Mode
KXP-1595 (240 cps) NLQ Mode
KXP-3131 (16 cps) Daisywheel
KXP-3151 (23 cps) Daisywheel
Star Micronics NX-10 (120cps) Parallel
SG-15 (120cps) Parallel
SD-10 (IfjOcpsj Parallel
SD-15 (160cps) Parallel
SR-10 (200cps) Parallel
SR-15 (200cps) Parallel
Toshiba

P-321 24 Pin (216cps) Par./Ser. 10"
P-341 24 Pin (216cps) Par./Ser. 15"
P-351 24 Pin (2B8cps) Par./Ser. 15"

Call
Call
Call
Call
Call

179.00
349.00
489.00
679.00
125.00
229.00
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LEARNING J
LANGUAGES
WITH LOGO

Create a Logo lexicon with TransAid, ^

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you can tailor to your needs. *0>

by Glenn Thomas

tf you've just started learning a foreign language, it proba-
bly seems to have no clear structure— and what about all
those confusing cases and tenses?
TransAid, an Apple Logo II program, can help you translate text.
Creating your own dictionary provides painless vocabulary drill, and ''IsiP^
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I J

Setting Up the TransAid Dictionary

Using your Apple Logo II program, format a disk and give it volume
name LOGO to ensure compatibility with the start-up file you'll create.
Then type in Listings 1 through 5 and save them with the following
names: STARTUP (automatically loaded start-up program); TRANS-
AID.LOG (initialization, termination, and main menu); TRANST.LOG
(translation procedures); TRANSD.LOG (dictionary utilities); and
TRANSP.LOG (text-printing procedure). Figure 1 shows TransAid's
program flow.

Embedded LOAD commands link the last four files and let you
switch from one to another. Segmenting is a programming trade-
off—speed versus room. Consolidating the files would eliminate the
delay during file loading, but the reduced amount of RAM available
would mean a smaller dictionary during translation.

TransAid maintains your dictionary as variable VOCAB in file VO-
CAB.LOG. The program's target language as presented in Listing 2
is Dutch; to start a dictionary for a different language, erase or rename
the VOCAB.LOG file, and replace the word HET in line 3 of procedure
TRANS.AID in the TRANSAID.LOG file (Listing 2) with the word for
"the" in the new language (be sure to use uppercase). Then boot
the Apple Logo II program disk, insert your TransAid disk, and

press the return key to boot the program; it automatically loads ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
and initializes, then creates a new one-word dictionary. Once ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

you've started a dictionary (the VOCAB.LOG file), TransAid carries
it over from session to session.

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101

TransAid's dictionary illustrates a particularly flexible data
structure: an arbitrary number of alternate entry words
(synonyms or verb forms, for instance) linked to any num-
ber of single- or multiple-word associations (such as defini-
tions). Using the dictionary utilities of TRANSD.LOG
(Listing 4), you can add, extend, or delete entries. The
LOOKUP and INDICP procedures of TRANST.LOG (List-
ing 3) let you access them.

TransAid works best with an 80-column display: Multiple
definitions take up a great deal of screen space, and
when you're translating an entire sentence, it's best to get
the whole thing on a single screen. The program does
run in 40-column mode, though— just change 78 to 38 in

Listing 1. STARTUP loads automatically upon booting.

TO BEGIN
ERPS

CT PR L Loading necessary procedures. 3 PR E Please wait ...... .-.-3 PR E3

LOAD " TRANSAID. LOG

TRANS; AID ' ...

END

MAKE " STARTUP E BEGIN. T

Listing 2. TRANSAiD.LOG contains initiaiization and ter-
mination procedures and TransAid's main menu.

TO TRANS. AID

CT PR E Initialising. 3 PR C Please wait: . . . 1 PR t ]

INITIALIZE

IF NOT FILEP "VOCAB.LOG E MAKE " VOCAB CC C C HET 1 1 E C THE 3 3 3 3 OPEN "VOCAB.LOG SET WRIT

E "VOCAB.LOG PRINT, : VOCAB SETWRITE C 1 CLOSE " VOCAB. LOG 1

OPEN "VOCAB. LOG SETREAD i: VOC^£.. LOS

MAKE "VOCAB- RL

SET READ C 1 CLOSE "VOCAB. LOS

MENU:

END

TO GOODBYE
CT

PR E 3 PR C 3 PR C 1

PR C Thank you for* using TRANS. AID. 1 .

WAIT 300

ERALL STOP STOP

END '

TO GOTO :R

LOCAL "A LOCAL "B

MAK e "'* c Loading necessary:, procedures. 3
MAKE «B CP lease wait . 1

IF !R =1 E ERPS CT PR t 3 PR sA PR- sB LOAD "TRANST.LOG TR AN. TEXT J
IF iR = 2 CERPS CT PR C 1 PR :A PR sB LOAD "TRAN5P.LG& OUT . TEXT 1
IF :R = 3 E ERPS CT PR' C 3 PR :A PR :B LOAD "TRANSD.LOG DICTIONARY 3
END

TO INITIALIZE
MAKE ".IN/TEXT C 3

MAi E " 1 MAMTb • T ( ]

MAKE u CLOC C O 211
MAKE " CLEARLINE C

END

TO MENU

LOCAL " R '

.Ct MAKE "CLOC EO 21 '■ '

SET CURSOR C 15 03 PR E TRANS. AID 3 ■■

SET CURSOR . E 2 33 PR C Enter number of the option desired from the fol lowing list: 1

SET CURSOR C4 63 PR El Translate 1

SET-CURSOR C4 81 PR C2 Print out working te:-;t 3

SETCURSOR C4 103 PR C3 -Wort; mitt, dictionary J , .-.

SETCURSOR C2 14] PR C Press RETURN With no entry to quit!

SETCURSOR E4 20 3 TYPE E Choice 1

MAKE "R RL

IF EMPTYP s R C GOODBYE CT 9TOP3

IF NUMBER P FIRST sR. E IF AND ( FIRST : R ) < 4 < FIRST ;:ft I > Q E GOTO (FIRST :R )
i [ firri'.' 3 3 i. ME' i 1 . 1 i
END

line 8 of procedure PRINT.WD in the TRANST.LOG file
(Listing 3).

Putting the Clues Together

After you boot Apple Logo tl and TransAid as described
above, a menu of options appears: translate a text, print a
working translation, or work with the dictionary. Since your
dictionary initially contains only one word, select "work
with the dictionary" first. (Be patient— transitions to main-menu

Listing 3. TRANST.LOG handles translation.

TO TRAN. TEXT
CT

SET CURSOR 115 3 PR- E TRANSLATION 3

SETCURSOR C4 23 3 TYPE E Enter sentence - Press RETURN 1

cFT -i'Pi-.k [i.. . '. M-t £ 'NI-E'I R

IF EMPTYP :INSEN t- MA IN- MENU STOP 3

SETCURSOR C O 2 3 REPEAT 2 C PR : CLEARLINE 3

MAKE " I NTEXT LPUT sI NSEN : I NT EXT

MAKE "MDICN 1 MAKE " CLOC EO 23

PRINT. TEXT : INSEN

GET . TRANS

TRAN. TEXT

END

TO MA T IM. MENU
ERPS

CT PR C Loading . necessary procedures. 1 PP. I Please wait . . .. . . . . 3 PR C 3

LOAD "TRANSAID.LOG

END

TO GET. TRANS
LOCAL " TRS

SETCURSOR EO 23 3 TYPE j CLEARLINE

;,(: T.:>'ftt., w t iii F P : tr.'ji t ,,- r. ; ■

SETCURSOR CO 221 MAKE "TRS RL
ir FfiF- ; i^l f i.i-ir in' ■ i
MAKE "TRANTEXT LPUT :TRS : TR ANTE XT
END

TO FRjINT i TEXT sS

IF EMPTYP ' :S C STOP 3

PRINT.WD < UPPERCASE FIRST :S )

PRINT. TEXT ( BUTF I RST s S )

END

TO PRINT.WD :W

LOCAL " INL LOCAL "DEF LOCAL "DICN LOCAL "DICL LOCAL "ML
MAKE " INL < ( COUNT : W ) -+ 1 >

■MAKE u DEF LOOKUP' < L 1ST (" LIST :W i ) : VOCAB : ■-
MAKE "DICN COUNT : DEF

IF -r-I-.N rriri-rj n-wl -NDI'U : r- 1 - r j j
MAKE "DICI MAXL ; DEF

IF : INL > :DICL I MAKE "ML :INL3 C MAKE "NL :DICL3

IF ■< FIRST sCLOC ) + :ML > 70 E MAKE "CLOC LIST ( SUM ( LAST : CLOC ) : MDICN 3 J
MAKE "MDICN iDICN IF- ( SUM ( LAST s vJLOC J 1 : MDICN V > 17 E MAKE " CLOC LPUT 2 BU
i L .« :T :--| ■ rit i-J. : ri i
SETCURSOR : CLOC TYPE :W

PRINT. DEF : DEF ( LPUT ( < LAST :CLOC ) + 2 1 BUTLABT : CLOC >
MAKE " CLOC FPUT ( (FIRST : CLOC ) + : ML ) BUTFlRST : CLOC
END ■-

TO PRINT. DEF t-D iS
ii- y i-v i . r a - ■ : -i :

If S. 4 k ■ ri-.n .|. - -...ii i
SETCURSOR :S- TYPE i P'lRST.-iD ■) ''

PRINT. DEF BUTFlRST sD ( LPUT (. ( LAST sB ) 1 ) BU I L AST ;!3 )
END

TO NEW.BCN
LOCAL " R

SETCURSOR X 4 23 3 TYPE C Press RETURN tci a.nlini'P tr an'iil -at ion . 3
MAKE "R RL .
CT SETCURSOR C IS 3 PR t TRANSLAT ION 3

END:

TO CT. CHR :D

IF EMPTYP :D f OUTPUT Q J

OUTPUT /< SUM ( ( COUNT ( FI RST : D ) ) * 1 V CT-CHP E'JTFI R'-iT fD- >
END

TO MAXL. :D

IF EMPTYP isD E OUTPUT 0:

IF < CT. CHR FIRST :D- J ?- MAXL BUTFlRST :D COUTPUT CT. CHR FIRST -111 C OUTPUT MAXL

BUTFlRST :D3

END

TO LOOKUP :NW :D

IF EMPTYP iB C OUTPUT L E XXX 1 11

IF IND1 CP :NW FIRST :& C OUTPUT -LAST FIRST ih 1

OUTPUT LOOKUP :NW BUTFlRST :0

END

TO INDICP :NW :E

IF EMPTYP :NW C OUTPUT " FALSE 3

IF MEMBERF FIRST :NW FIRST !E C OUTPUT "TRUE. 3

OUTPUT INDICP BUTFlRST :NW :E

END

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selections are the slowest processes in TransAid, because a
whole new program segment is loaded for each selection.)
From the dictionary-utilities menu, select "add to dictio-
nary." (Other options let you delete a word from the dictio-
nary or print a hardcopy of the current dictionary.)

To add a word to your dictionary, first type in the new
term in the target language. Note that TransAid lets you
include different "forms" of the new word (several syn-
onyms, for instance) in a single entry. You can also enter
more than one definition, each made up of several words,
if you like. (Try to keep them succinct, though, to save
space on the translation screen.)

Figure 2 shows your computer screen following comple-
tion of a typical entry (the Dutch word neef, meaning
"nephew," or "cousin" in this case).

Throughout the program, simply pressing the return key
with no entry either moves you along in a procedure or
takes you to the next menu. TransAid implements this
consistent, simple user interface by collecting keyboard in-
put through its READLIST operation, then testing for a
blank list.

When you've added a few words to your dictionary, try a
translation. Press the return key twice with no entry to go
back to the dictionary-utilities menu, then to the main menu.

Select the "translate" option, then simply type in a sen-
tence from your target-language text and press the return
key. (Omit punctuation, or separate marks from words with
a space.) TransAid reprints the input sentence and lists under
each word a number of possible meanings if you've included
the term in your dictionary.

Figure 3 shows the computer screen following transla-
tion of the Dutch sentence Gebruik bij het schoonmaken
van de helm alleen warm water in zachte zeep. Using the
clues listed and considering the sentence in context, type
in your best try at a translation: "Use only warm water
and ??? soap to clean the helmet."

Press the return key to save the foreign-language sen-
tence and the translation you came up with. Then type in
another sentence, or press the return key with no entry to
go back to the main menu.

The third main-menu option, "print working text," gives
you a list of your foreign-language-text sentences followed
by the corresponding translations you've put together.
From the main menu, press the return key with no selec-
tion to exit to Logo.

Translating from the Top

Looking up each word in a dictionary— paper or elec-
tronic—isn't the best way to translate a substantial body of
text. Skim the whole passage to get a general idea of its
topic, then begin working on individual paragraphs and sen-
tences, fitting them into the overall theme. Consider each sen-
tence in context. It's at this stage that TransAid will be
most helpful to you. To borrow a phrase from another sort
of language, think of it as "top-down" programming: Be-
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levels of detail until you get down to specific words. ■

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Listing 4. TRANSD.LOG includes dictionary utilities.

TO INDICP sNW :E ,

IF EMPTYP :NW [OUTPUT "FALSE1 -

IF MEMBE-Rp: FIRST :NW FIRST sE [OUTPUT " TRUE. 3

OUTPUT INDICP B.UTFI RST iNW YE

END

TO DROP. DEF :R ; VOCAB

IF INDICP ( FPUT :R C3 ) ( FIRST -.VOCAB > [OUTPUT BUT FT RST : VOCAB J
MAKE "V&CAB FPUT < LAST : VOCAB ) ( BUTLAST : VOCAB )
OUTPUT DROP. DEF :R : VOCAB
END "

TO UPDATE '■' ' ' '

IF FXLEP- "VOCAB.LOS [ ERF "VOCAB. LOS 3
OPEN " VOCAB. LOG SETWRITE "VOCAB.' LOS
PRINT s VOCAB

SETWRITE t J CLpSfe " VOCAB. LOG
END

TO ADD. TO. DEF iNW :ND : VOCAB s _ "

IF INDICP sNW < FIRST : VOCAB ) [ OUTPUT FPUT ( LIST s NW ( SE t :ND ) (. FIRST EUTF

I RST FIRST : VOCAB ) ) ) < BUTFIRST ; VOCAB ) STOP 3 ' .

OUTPUT ADD. TO. DEF sNW :ND < FPUT f LAST : VOCAB ) ( BUTLAST 1 VOCAB ) )
END ' -

TO GET. NEW. DEF :ND
LOCAL " R

TYPE t Definition: 3 MAKE " R < LIST , UPPERCASE FIRST RL )
IF EMPTYP :R C OUTPUT : ND 3

MAKE "ND. LPUT :R :ND 1

OUTPUT GET,NEW,-DEF.:t : ND-

END

TO LOOKUP :NW jD

IF EMPTYP [D C OUTPUT [C XXX 3 J]

IF INDICP sNW FIRST" :D "[ OUTPUT LAST FIRST ;D3

OUTPUT LOOKUP SNW BUTFIRST :D

END

TO DEL. FM. DIC
LOCAL ' R LOCAL "D

CT SET CURSOR E9 01 PR [ DELETE FROM DICTIONARY 3
SETCURSOR 12 3 3 PR [Enter word to be deleted. J
SETCURSOR [ 2 51 TYPE [Word: 3

SETCURSOR C9 53 MAKE " R ( LIST UPPERCASE FIRST RL. )

IF EMPTYP : R E DICTIONARY STOP 3

MAKE " D LOOKUP ( FPUT fR t,l > s VOCAB

"IF EQUAL P ( F I RST :D- ) C XXX 3 £ PR [ 3 TYPE :R PR [ is- not in the dictionary. 3 WAIT

240 STOP 3
■MAKE " VOCAB DROP. DEF :R : VOCAB
UPDATE
BEL, PM. DIC.
END |

TO ADD. TO. DIC

LOCAL "R LOCAL " NW LOCAL "D LOCAL "ND
■;t St t. :■.■(;=. [ i_ ..j v-i- i -,|-L- i- L'lO !■ -m-h. 1
SETCURSOR C 2 33 PR [ Enter- word to be added 3
SETCURSOR T2 53 TYPE [Word: 3

SETCURSOR C9 5 3 MAKE " R ( LIST UPPERCASE FIRST RL ) MAKE "NW C 3 MAKE . "NW FPUT : R
eNW "

"IF EMPTYP :,R [DICTIONARY STOP 3

SETCURSOR tZ 33 PR ( SE [Enter- additional forms Of 3 :R [ to be added] r
PR C < RETURN with no entry if no additional forms ) 3 PR : CLEARLINE?
MAKE "NW SET. ADD, FORMS :NW
MAKE "D LOOKUP :NW : VOCAB

IF NOT EQUAL P ( FIRST :D ) [ XXX 3 [ PR E 3 TYPE :R PR [ is already in, the dictionary

. ] PR [New definitions wi 1 1 be added. J j

PR [3 PR CEnter definitions - one at a time. 3

PR ■[.:< RETURN with no entry to end. 1.1 PR E .11 -

MAKE "ND C 3 MAKE "ND GET . NEW. DEF :ND

IF EQUAL P ( FIRST :D ) C XXX 3 C MAKE "VOCAB LPUT ( LIST iNW : ND ) : VOCAB 1 [ MAKE "V

OCAB ADD. TO. DEF : NW :ND : VOCAB 3

UPDATE

AEP-TQ.DIC

END i

TO GOTO. DIC :R

IF iR =1 E ADD. TO. DIC STOP j

IF :R = Z C DEL. FM. DIC ST UP 3

IF :R = 3 [ PRINT. DIC : VOCAB STOP 3

END

TO DICTIONARY
LOCAL "R

: ,FT'" h f ■■" 1 t'F- E : T. : 1 . ■.■ W i. I T t F i

SETCURSOR 12 .3 3 PR C Enter number of opt ion desired from the fol lowing l ist : 3
SETCURSOR T4 6 3 PR [ 1 Add to dictionary 3
SETCURSOR E4 83 PR [2 Deiete from dictionary]
SETCURSOR [4 10 ] PR [3 Pr int out dictionary 3

SETCURSOR C4 14 3 PR C RETURN With no entry to exit dictionary procedures]

- t i . ■ -ii [ .. j ( , f,. . r..;.!-:* ;

SETCURSOR L12 201 MAKE " R RL

1 1 EM*-' 1 ■ r ;F I N.'-lN. MLri'J : T-.r i

IF NUMBERP FIRST :R C IF AND ( FIRST :R > < 4 ( FIRST iR 1 :• O [ GOTO. DIC ( FIRST

: R 1. 3 [ DICTIONARY 3 3 [ DICTIONARY j '..

END

TO PRINT. DIC "sD

' CT'

LOCAL "E LOCAL "W
OPEN 1 SETWRITE 1
' PR [ .1

REPEAT C COUNT :D » [MAKE "E FIRST :D MAKE "D BUTFIRST :D MAKE "W FIRST :E REPEA

T ( COUNT :W i [ PR FIRST ; W MAKE "W BUTFIRST :W] MAKE "W FIRST BUTFIRST :E - REE PEA

T ( COUNT :W ) E TYPE I 3 PR FIRST iW MAKE "W BUTFIRST :W 1 ] j

SETWRITE E.3 CLOSE 1

TSiCTIGNARY

END

TO MA IN. MENU
ERPS

CT' PR C Loading necessary procedures. J PR E Please wait ....... 3 PR t 3 '

LOAD "TRANSAiD. LOG

MENU -

END

TO GET. ADD. FORMS :NW :

LOCAL " R . - s

TYPE [Additional form: 3 MAKE "R RL
IF EMPTYP i-R E OUTPUT aNW3
MAKE "NW LPUT :R s'NW

■OUTPUT -SET. ADD. FORMS ::NW "
END

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guage sentences with corresponding trgnslations.

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YOUR ROOTS

Journey into your family's past— with
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by Weston George

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For example, the search into my own ancestral past led to the enigma of my
great-great-grandfather, a man with the unlikely name of Bushrod Craven.

Bushrod was at the end of a strand that pulled me through time and space—
from the present back to 1807, from Colorado through Iowa, Illinois, and Ken-
tucky to Loudoun County, Virginia. There it stopped. Just who were Bushrod Cra-
ven's proud parents?

For the moment, that remains uncertain, but the investigation has turned up an
interesting detail from a couple of generations earlier: One Hanna Bushrod mar-
ried a man called John Augustine Washington in Virginia and gave birth in 1762
to a son they named Bushrod. John had a brother named George, who died in
1799 after a distinguished military and political career. Yes, Bushrod's uncle was
George Washington. While I haven't yet documented my connection to the father
of our country, AppleWorks is handling the routine work and keeping track of the
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My situation isn't unusual— anyone who explores his or her ancestry will turn up
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reasons for recording their genealogy. It's one way to increase your self-under-
standing, and it's a chance to contribute to recorded history by preserving unique
information that would otherwise be lost. In the process, you'll produce organized
data that will aid other researchers.

Figure 1. Individual worksheet as it appears in the
AppleWorks data base.

10 File: INDVWS
Report : individualWS
INDIVIDUAL WORKSHEET

CODE NUMBER i 24

NAME (in full); Bushrod W. Craven
BIRTH DATE: 1807

BIRTH PLACE: Loudoun County, Virginia
OCCUPATIONS(S) : Iowa pioneer, farmer,
OCCUPATIONS [S ) : judge, commissioner
MILITARY SERVICE: unknown
DEATH DATE: 1878, October
BURIAL DATE: unk

BURIAL PLACE: Russell cem. , Milton, IA
MARRIAGE DATE: 1830, August 19
MARRIAGE PLACE: Flemingsburg , Kentucky
SPOUSE'S NAME: Nancy Tracy
SPOUSE'S CODE NO. : 25
FATHER'S NAME: unk

FATHER'S CODE NO. : 48
MOTHER'S NAME : unk
MOTHER'S CODE NO.: 49

RESIDENCE 1: Loudoun County, Virginia

RESIDENCE 2: Kentucky

RESIDENCE 3 i Indiana

RESIDENCE 4: Illinois

RESIDENCE 5: Davis County, Iowa

RESIDENCE 6: Milton, Iowa

INFO. : 1st settler, Davis County, IA in

INFO. : 1838; elected judge when county

INFO.: established in 1843

SOURCES i family records, 1850 census,

SOURCE'S : Pioneer Hist, of Davis Cty, IA

SOURCES s Kentucky marriage record

Figure 2. Family group worksheet as it appears in the
AppleWorks data base.

ishrod W. Crav
RESIDENCES PRIOR TO: Loudoun county,
MARRAIGE WITH DATES: circa 1807
WIFE (maiden name): Nancy Tracy
WIFE'S CODE NO. : 25
MARRIAGE DATE s 1830, August 19
MARRIAGE PLACE: Flemingsburg, KY
CHILD (name): John A. (code no. 12)

Birth date & pl<
Death date 4 pli
Marriages Sarah J.
CHILD (name): James
Birth date & place
Death date & place

FAMILY HEAD CODE NO

HUSBAND (full name);
RESIDENCES PRIOR TO
MARRAIGE WITH DATES

1831, unk
1871, Iowa
Wandel, 2/28/1854

Bushrod W. Cr.
(this is part
of record 24 to

WIFE (maiden name): continue listing of
WIFE'S CODE NO.: children. See part
MARRIAGE DATE: one for data on husband
MARRIAGE PLACE: and wife)

CHILD (
Birth date
Death date
Marriage:

CHILD (name
Birth date
Death date

place: 1840, Iowa

place: 1865, Atlanta,
tarried
William H.

place: 1842, Iowa

place: 1881, Milton,

Marriage: see file 24
CHILD (name) : Margaret

Birth date & place: 1836

Death date & place : unk

Marriage: unk
CHILD (name): Caroline

Birth date & place: 1837, Illionis

Death date & place: unk

Marriage: unk
RESIDENCES: KY, Montgomery, IN; IL;
RESIDENCES: Davis county, IA
OTHER:
OTHER:

SOURCES: family records; Flemings, KY;
SOURCES: 1850 census

Marriage: see file 24
CHILD (name): Lewis P.

Birth date & place: 1843, Iowa

Death date & place: unk

Marriage: unk
CHILD (name):

Birth date & place:

Death date & place:

Mar

lage

RESIDENCES:
RESIDENCES:

OTHER: George & Lewis served in Union
OTHER: army. George died in battle.
SOURCES: fam. rec; Military Service
SOURCES: Records, National Archives

Figure 3. Five-generation ancestral chart as it appears
in the AppleWorks spreadsheet.

File: anchart Page 1

FIVE GENERATION ANCESTRAL CHART

. 16 ? George

B Edmond Born:

George Died:

Born: 1849 17 ?

4 James Wales Born:
George Died: 1906 Died:

Born: 1882 Emporia, KS

Emporia, KS 18 ? Williams

Died: 1967 9 Elizabeth Born:

Belle Plaine, Williams Died:

Kansas Born: 19 ?

Wales Born:

2 Weston W. Died: 1906 Died:
Georg e Emporia, KS

Born: 1908 20 Alec Fleming

Newton, KS 10 John W. Born:

Died: Fleming Died:

Born:1858 21 Mollie Tipton

5 Elva Mae Born:
Fleming Died: 1915 Died:

Born : 1881 Emporia, KS

Ada, Kansas 22 Peter Leuhr

Died: 1968 11 Maggie Born:

Belle Plaine, Leuhr Died:

Kansas Born: 1865 23 Katherine Dittmer

Germany Born:

1 Weston W. Died: Died:

George , Jr . Newton, KS

Born: 1935 24 Bushrod Craven

Hutchinson, KS 12 John A. Born: 1807, Virginia

Died: Craven Died: 1878, Iowa

Born: 1831 25 Nancy Tracey

Milton, IA Born: 1810, Kentucky

6 James Frank Died: 1871 Died:
Craven Milton, IA

Born: 1857 26 Charles Wandel

Milton, Iowa 13 Sarah Jane Born: 1804, New York

Died: 1917 Wandel Died:

Kremmling, CO Born: 1836 27 ?

Iowa Born:

3 Francis Marie Died: 1871 Died:
Craven

Born: 1910 28 ? Hagen

Kremmling, CO 14 William L. Born:

Died: Hagen Died:

Born: 1842 29 ?

7 Amy Francis Dayton, OH Born:
Hagen Died: Died:

Born: 1877

Conifer, CO 30 ? Hughes

Died: 1953 15 Annis Born:

Kremml ing , CO Hughes Died :

Born: 1851 31 ?

Whatever your motivation, you'll soon confront a mob of
ancestors and the need to establish some limits and
goals. A realistic long-term goal is to complete a five-gen-
eration ancestral chart and files of supporting data: names
and birth, death, and marriage data for 30 ancestors and
their offspring. This is no small task, but you did say you
were looking for something worthwhile to do with your
computer, didn't you?

Keeping a Log

Before embarking on this voyage of discovery, like Cap-
tain Kirk, you'll need a log in which to record your adven-
tures. Experienced genealogical explorers, such as the
staff of the American Genealogical Research Institute, rec-
ommend two basic forms: the individual worksheet (see
Figure 1) and the family group worksheet (Figure 2).

For every ancestor you come across, you'll prepare an
individual worksheet. On the family group worksheet you'll
record data for husband, wife, and their children. If an
ancestor has more than one spouse (usually serially, but
not always), complete a family group worksheet for each
marriage or other relationship that produced offspring.

A five-generation ancestral chart (Figure 3— also known
as a family tree or pedigree) is the third blank form you'll
fill in as your exploration progresses, and completing it ac-
curately may be your ultimate goal.

If anything was ever made for genealogical recordkeep-
ing, it's AppleWorks' data-base function. You can design
your own file equivalents of the two forms; easily enter,
change, and add data; and, most importantly, quickly find
and relate names, dates, places, and other information. If
you need help setting up your system, run through the
data-base sections of the AppleWorks Tutorial and
Reference Manual.

Since you probably won't be taking your computer with
you on research trips, you'll also need printed, blank indi-
vidual and family group worksheets. You can produce the
masters with the AppleWorks word processor (see Figures
4 and 5), then photocopy a supply.

Now what about the ancestral chart? Looking at Figure
3, you'll note that it consists of rows and columns— a
spreadsheet. With that, we've made genealogical use of
all three integrated functions and temporarily converted
AppleWorks to AncestorWorks.

Planning Your Strategy

So where do you start?

Record the facts in your AppleWorks data-base version
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your spouse as head of family. The information on your
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record straight.

Be scrupulous about checking your facts. It's better to
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the data you seek and tips on how to use them. They
contain the all-important technical information that's beyond
the scope of this article, and you'll need to keep at least
one such reference book on hand throughout your quest.

Numbering the Ancestral Chart

One bit of technical information is directly related to your
three computer forms: the numbering system.

As the starting point of the ancestral chart (Figure 3),
you're given code number 1. Your father and mother are
assigned numbers 2 and 3, respectively. Your four grand-
parents are numbered 4, 5, 6, and 7, the even numbers
being assigned to the males and the lowest number in
each generation going to your father's side of the family.
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from Great-grandmother (number 15) and decipher a clue
that suddenly makes sense.

If you want to make up individual and family group
sheets for uncles, aunts, and cousins, you can work out
an appropriate numbering system for them (2.1, 7.4.1,
and so forth), but be forewarned: You'll be well occupied
for quite some time with just the major players in your

110

Figure 4. Individual worksheet form created with
AppleWorks word processor.

INDIVIDUAL WORK SHEET CODE NUMBER:

NAME (in full)

BIRTH DATE

BIRTH PLACE

OCCUPATIONS

MILITARY SERVICE

DEATH DATE BURIAL DATE

BURIAL PLACE

MARRIAGE DATE

MARRIAGE PLACE

SPOUSE'S NAME CODE NO.

FATHER'S NAME CODE NO.

MOTHER'S NAME CODE NO.

RESIDENCES DATES

OTHER BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION (education, hobbies, etc.)

SOURCES USED FOR RESEARCH AND VERIFICATION

Figure 5. Family group worksheet form created with
AppleWorks word processor.

FAMILY GROUP WORK SHEET FAMILY HEAD CODE NO.

HUSBAND (full name)

RESIDENCES PRIOR TO MARRIAGE DATE

WIFE (full maiden name)

RESIDENCES PRIOR TO MARRIAGE

MARRIAGE DATE PLACE

CHILD'S NAME .

BIRTH DATE PLACE ;

DEATH DATE PLACE ;

MARRIAGE .

CHILD'S NAME

BIRTH DATE PLACE

DEATH DATE PLACE

MARRIAGE .

CHILD'S NAME

BIRTH DATE PLACE

DEATH DATE PLACE

MARRIAGE .

CHILD'S NAME

BIRTH DATE PLACE

DEATH DATE PLACE

MARRIAGE . ;

If more than four children use second sheet

FAMILY RESIDENCES (places and dates)

OTHER DATA

SOURCES USED FOR RESEARCH AND VERIFICATION

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own saga, even with the unflagging support of AppleWorks.
My advice: Leave the supporting cast to other family histori-
ans for whom they are the stars. Stick to your goals.

On the Other Hand. . .

In the midst of writing this article, I visited Mount Ver-
non, George Washington's beautifully preserved estate
high on a bluff above the mile-wide Potomac. I walked
from the pillared mansion through the flowering dogwood
to Washington's burial site on the grounds. The modest,
red-brick tomb is surrounded by four white marble obe-
lisks, smaller versions of the monument in the capital. I
was only casually observing one of them when the inscrip-
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place of old Bushrod Washington.

The Mount Vernon guidebook indicated that Bushrod
had inherited Mount Vernon upon his uncle's death, but
had died childless in 1829. Was this the end of my hope
to find that the first President's blood flowed in my veins?
Perhaps not. Bushrod had two sisters and two broth-
ers—maybe one of the women in that generation or the
next married a Craven and named a son Bushrod. I had
a feeling I was going to disregard my own admonition
and take off on a genealogical tangent. But that's one of
the benefits of goals and strategies: You can tell when the
right thing to do is ignore them.B

Weston George is a history buff, Apple enthusiast, and
freelance journalist. Write to him at 843 Trenton Drive,
Sunnyvale, CA 94087.

Resources

American Genealogical Research Institute. How to
Trace Your Family Tree, Doubleday. Garden City. NY.
1973.

Beard, Timothy Field, How to Find Your Family Roots,
McGraw-Hill. New York, 1977.

Croom, Emily Anne, Unpuzzling Your Past: A Basic
Guide to Genealogy Betterway Publications, White Hall,
VA, 1984.

Doan, Gilbert H., Searching for Your Ancestors, Barua,,,
Books, New York, 1978.

Everton, George B., Sr., Handy Book for Genealogists:
Vital Record Sources, Everton Publishers, Logan, UT.

197!

Helmbold, F. Wilbur. Tracing Your Ancestry, Oxford
House, Birmingham, AL, 1976.

Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540, Reference
Services and Facilities of the Genealogy Room and
Guides to Genealogical Research: A Selected List (free
leaflets).

Library of the Genealogical Society of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. 50 East North Temple
Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84105: Send for information
on books and microfilmed data available.

National Archives and Records Service, Publications
Sales Branch, General Services Administration. Wash-
ington, DC 20408, Genealogical Records in the Na-
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By Gary B. Little

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Publishing a Company Newsletter

"Publishing a
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Good communication with em-
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the word out on important matters,
and involves employees in the work-
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be fancy, and it shouldn't be frivolous-
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the company's past achievements,
current happenings, and future plans.

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employees, "You're important."

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Figure 1— newsletter name, credits,
dashed lines, and a special-occasion
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processor.

When you see such key combina-
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NEWSLETTER. You should now see
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of course. But the way it looks— yuch!

118

November 1986

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Figure 1. The front page of The Vollner Voice, a company newsletter pro-
duced with the AppleWorks word processor.

"THE O L_ l_r-J EE re yOICE

Written and Published by the Employees of Vollner Tool & Die Company December 29, 1966

'TIS THE SEASON. . .

A lively bash for Vollner employees and their
families was held in the company cafeteria on
Wednesday to celebrate the Christmas-Chanukah
season. The party featured an array of enticing
foods from shishKabob to sandwiches, music, and
all the soda anyone could drink. According to
reports, the event was a smashing success.

Reporters on the scene noted the frenzied
activities leading up to the party: mini-meetings
to discuss the size of the candy canes and where
to buy dreidles, last-minute panic because the
dreidles hadn't arrived, frantic phone calls to the
caterer who didn't show up with the food until
five minutes before party time.

But when the big moment arrived, everything was
ready and the extra efforts of everyone involved
could be seen in the lavish buffet and lovely
decorations. At 3 PM, the guests started arriving.
Throughout the afternoon, sounds of laughter,
singing, shouting, booming music, and dancing
feet were heard. And questions like "How come
warm soda?" and "What's a dreidle?" and "Can't
we get some air in here?"

Reliable sources have identified the employees
who contributed to the success of the party: Joan
Lynch for arranging for the food and beverages;
Lois Maiwald and Josh Lamhut for setup and
cleanup; Willie Chen for getting the candy canes
and dreidles; Barbara Santoro for lugging a
projector to show the slides of the Vollner
15-Year Club dinner; Jim Vinicombe for being an
all-around great Santa Claus; Bob Nelson, Jeff
Wennerstrom, Ken Wolin, and all the guys in
Maintenance for decorating the cafeteria and
arranging the tables....and to all of YOU at
Vollner for being a great group of people!

FROM THE STAFF OF THE VOLLNER VOICE:

OUR VERY BEST WISHES FOR
A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY SEASON AND THE
HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS.

Formatting the Document

Getting the results you want is often
a matter of doing the obvious first,
then testing to see what works better.
I wanted this newsletter to have two
columns of equal width, page variety,
and a professional, typeset look. After
some initial planning and a few false
starts— mainly the width of the col-
umns— I finally reached the point
where I could say, "That's it." Here's
how to do it.

Setting the Margins

First, set the margins. Press OA-1
to jump the cursor to line 1 column
1 . Press OA-0 to bring up the Printer
Options screen. Type TM and press

the return key. Type .6 and press the
return key again. Now type BM and
press the return key. Type 1 and
press the return key again. Next, type
LM and press Return. Type .5 and
press Return. And finally, type RM
and press Return. Type .5 and press
the return key again.

Character Size and Centering

The next step prints THE VOLLNER
VOICE at four characters per inch.
Type CI and press the return key.
Type 4 and press the return key
again. Now center the newsletter
name: Type CN and press Return.
Press the escape key to exit the
Printer Options screen.

Uncentering and Proportional Spacing

Next, have AppleWorks end the
centering. Place the cursor on line 8
column 1. Press OA-O, type UJ, and
press the return key. The rest of the
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gives each character— skinny /' or
chubby w— only the room it needs,
unlike standard spacing, which gives
every character the same amount of
room. AppleWorks has two kinds of
proportional spacing— P1 and P2. P1
characters are slightly narrower. Type
P1 and press Return. Press the
escape key.

Increasing the Article Heading

Next, tell AppleWorks to print 'TIS
THE SEASON at eight characters per
inch. Place the cursor on line 20 col-
umn 1. Press OA-O, type CI, and
press the return key. Type 8 and
press the return key again. Press the
escape key.

Proportional Spacing
and Justifying Text

Now return the text to proportional
spacing. Place the cursor on line 23
column 1 and press OA-O. Type P1
and press Return. Next, have Apple-
Works justify the lines to produce an
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the return key again.

Increasing the Right Margin

Next, increase the right margin to
allow room for a right column. You
are still in the Printer Options screen.
Type RM and press Return. Type 4.2
and press Return again. Press the
escape key.

Centering the Good Wishes

To give this page a bit more vari-
ety, center the last four lines. Press
OA-9 to jump the cursor to line 75.
Move the cursor to line 71 column 1
and press OA-O. Type CN and press
Return. Press the escape key.

Boldfacing

The final step tells AppleWorks to
print the newsletter name, credits, and
'TIS THE SEASON in boldface type,
which makes them really stand out.
Press OA-3 to jump the cursor to line
19. Now place the cursor on line 21
column 1 . Press the control key and
type B. The caret that appears indi-
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AppleWorks uses the same caret for
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120

November 1986

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*** THE VOLLNER MOICE »«* IS

Written and Published by the Employees of Vollner Tool & Die
Company December 29, l?8e>K

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A lively bash -for Vollner employees and their families was
held in the company cafeteria on Wednesday to celebrate the
Chr i stmas-Chanuk'ah season. The party featured an array of
enticing foods from shishkabob to sandwiches, music, and all
the soda anyone could drink. According to reports, the ewent
was a smashing success. SS
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Reporters on the scene noted the frenzied activities leading
up to the party! mi n i -meet i ngs to djscuss the size of the
candy canes and where to buy dre idles, last-minute panic,
because the dre i dl es hadn ' t arrived, frantic phone calls to
the caterer who didn't show up with the food until five
minutes before party time.SS
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But when the big moment arrived, everything was ready and
the extra efforts of everyone involved could be seen in the
lavish buffet and lovely decorations. At 3 PM, the guests
started arriving. Throughout the afternoon, sounds of
laughter, singing, shouting, booming music, arid dancing feet
were heard. And questions like "How come warm soda?" and
"What's a dreidle?" and "Can't we get some air in here?"5S
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Reliable sources have identified the employees who
contributed to the success of the party: Joan Lynch for
arranging for the food and beverages; Lois Maiwald and Josh
Lamhut for setup and cleanups Willie Chen for getting the
candy canes and dreidles; Barbara Santoro-for lugging a
projector to show the slides of the Vollner 15-Year Club'
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FROM THE STAFF OF THE VOLLNER VOICE: SS
OUR VERY BEST WISHES FOR SS

A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY SEASON AND THE HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS.

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THE VOLLNER VOICE

Wri«en and Published by the Employees of Vollner Tool & Die Company December 29, 1986

'TIS THE SEASON. . .

A lively bash for Vollner employees and their
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APPLESOFT ADVISER

Data-Base Arrays

"Array
variables can
greatly expand
your control
of data
manipulation in
your program."

by Dan Bishop

Data Filer, presented in last
month's Applesoft Adviser (Octo-
ber 1986, p. 86), illustrates the
use of simple READ/DATA commands
in BASIC to build a data-base list. In
that program, you include a data
statement for each record in your
data-base list. You list all items associ-
ated with a specific record (such as
name, address, and phone number)
in the same data line. Each line be-
comes a permanent part of the pro-
gram itself.

Presenting a list of the records in
your "data base" on the video moni-
tor is Data Filer's only function. The
program uses a single set of vari-
ables for the items it reads from your
list. Only the items associated with the
most recently read record are present
in working RAM at any given time.
The program reads each record in
the list and displays all items in one
record before going on to the next. It
has none of the familiar functions of a
data-base management program.

This month, I'll introduce the con-
cept of array variables and show how
this feature of BASIC can greatly ex-
pand your control of data manipula-
tion in your program. Arrays let you
keep a large number of related items
in memory simultaneously, and use
very short segments of program code
to process large amounts of informa-
tion. Without array variables, the ca-
pabilities of computer programming
would be limited.

The Variable Variable

BASIC uses variable names to
"tag" locations in memory that con-
tain values the program needs. For
example, define a variable named XX
in your program by assigning it the
value 12.653:
100 XX = 12.653

The computer now stores the value
12.653 in memory, and uses that
value when the program calls for XX.

You must associate this type of vari-
able with only a single value. If you
assign the value -2.24 to XX later in
the program, you'll lose the previously
assigned value, 12.653. Most com-
puter applications require a way to
assign more than one value to a vari-
able name. Consider, for example, a
program that searches through a list

of numbers to find the largest one. If
you assign each number a unique
variable name, such as AA, AB, or
AC, then each comparison must have
its own unique line in the program.

You can solve this problem by us-
ing array variables. An array is a list
of variables that use the same vari-
able name. Each variable differs from
the others in the list by a number,
called a subscript, which you append
to the variable name. In BASIC, sub-
scripts are enclosed in parentheses.

For example, you can use RG in a
program as a numeric variable name.
Similarly, you can use T3 as a unique
variable name. You can assign RG
and T3 only one -Value each. But the
same program can have array vari-
ables RG and T3, and you can as-
sign any number of values to them.

You shouldn't write array variables
alone, however. You have to include
appropriate subscripts, such as RG(23)
and T3(14). (Read these two exam-
ples as "RG sub 23" and "T three
sub 14.") With these subscripts, the
array variable RG can contain at least
24 values (RG(0) through RG(23)),
and T3 can contain at least 15 values
(T3(0) through T3(14)).

BASIC treats subscripts just like any
other numeric values. In fact, you can
use any numeric variable as a sub-
script. If M has a value of 23, and J
has a value of 14, then RG(M) and
T3(J) refer to the same memory loca-
tions and values as RG(23) and T3(14).

This explains the power behind ar-
ray variables. In BASIC, you can con-
trol the values you assign to numeric
variables and change them at will
with simple arithmetic expressions. If
you also use a numeric variable to
represent the subscript in an array
variable, you can use the same sim-
ple arithmetic expressions to refer to
different members of the array list.

As an example, the following se-
quence of BASIC instructions uses the
variable J as a loop counter:

210 FOR J = 1 TO 12

220 READ CD$(J), CN$(J), ED$(J)

230 NEXT J

The program cycles through these three
lines 12 times. J has a value of one the
first time through, and increases by one
with each cycle of the loop.

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November 1986

Program listing. Data-Base Array.

1 REM DEMONSTRATION OF ARRAY DEF-

2 REM INITION AND LOADING FROM READ

3 REM DATA STATEMENTS CONTAINED IN A

4 REM LOOP .

5 REM ARRAY FILER

6 REM BY DAN BISHOP

7 REM APPLESOFT ADVISOR

8 REM INCIDER MAGAZINE - 11/86

9 REM

10 READ NE

20 DIM CD?(NE),CN$(NE),ED?(NE)

30 GOSUB 100: REM DISPLAY TITLES

40 GOSUB 200: REM READ DATA

50 GOSUB 300: REM DISPLAY DATA

90 END

97 REM

98 REM ROUTINE FOR SCREEN TITLES

99 REM

100 HOME
110 READ T$
120 PRINT T$

130 LS = " "

140 L$ = " " + L$ + L$ + L$ + L$

150 PRINT L$

160 PRINT "COMPANY / CARD NO. " , "EXP.DT. "

170 PRINT L$

180 PRINT

190 RETURN

196 REM

197 REM ROUTINE TO READ DATA

198 REM

199 REM

200 READ NR

210 FOR J = 1 TO NE

220 READ CD$(J) ,CN$(J) ,ED$(J)

230 NEXT J

240 RETURN

296 REM

297 REM ROUTINE TO DISPLAY DATA

298 REM NR RECORDS AT A TIME

299 REM

300 CT =

310 FOR J = 1 TO NR

320 CT = CT + 1

330 PRINT CT;". ";CD$(CT)

340 PRINT " "CN$(CT);

345 IF LEN (CN$(CT)) < 11 THEN PRINT

346 PRINT ,ED$(CT)

350 IF CT = NE THEN J = NR

360 NEXT J

370 PRINT L$

380 IF CT = NE THEN GOTO 440

390 PRINT "PRESS <RETURN> TO CONTINUE...";

400 INPUT X$

410 HOME

420 GOSUB 120

430 GOTO 310

440 RETURN

496 REM

497 REM DATA BLOCK FOR DATABASE FILES

498 DATA 13: REM # OF ENTRIES IN LIST

499 DATA CREDIT CARD INVENTORY

500 DATA 8: REM # OF RECORDS /SCREEN

501 DATA JACK'S PIZZA, "8-6211-48", "12/99."

502 DATA SUE'S SHOES, "421-37-8" , "05/88"

Listing continued.

Line 220 shows three array vari-
ables: CDS, CN$, and ED$. These
are all string variables (denoted by
the dollar sign following the variable
name), and all use J as a subscript.
The first time through the loop, the
program reads values into CD$(1),
CN$(1), and ED$(1). By the 12th
cycle through the loop, the program
reads values into CD$(12), CN$(12),
and ED$(12). Three simple lines as-
sign values to 36 variables! And all
36 variables are present in RAM,
available to the program whenever it
refers to a specific variable name and
appropriate subscript.

The DIM Statement

As long as you follow the rules in
naming simple variables, all you need
to do to introduce a new variable into
your program is use it. The computer
expects a one-to-one relationship be-
tween variables and values, and can
deal easily with unexpected variables.

Things aren't so simple when it
comes to array variables, though.
Your computer needs to know the
number of elements you intend to use
when you introduce an array-variable
name into your program. Since the
computer keeps all the memory spaces
for each array together as a block, it
needs to know how much memory to
reserve for each array before you can
use it in your program.

BASIC'S dimension statement, or
DIM, lets you dimension your arrays.
Follow DIM with a list of the array-vari-
able names you plan to use in your pro-
gram. Use commas to separate the
variable names, and add the largest
subscript value you intend to use to
each variable name. For example,

20 DIM CD$(12), CN$(12), ED$(12),
RG(25)

tells the computer to reserve 13 slots
in memory for the CD$ list, 13 for the
CN$ list, 13 for the ED$ list, and 26
for the RG list. (Don't forget that in
each case, there's also a "zeroth"
element.)

You can use as many DIM state-
ments in a program as you need,
with only two restrictions:

1) Array variables must be "dimen-
sioned" before the program can use
them. (Most programmers place the
DIM statements together at the start
of the program.)

2) Array variables can be dimen-
sioned only once in a program. Ap-
plesoft BASIC doesn't let you
redimension them.

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APPLESOFT ADVISER

Listing continued.

UA1A

504

DATA

505

DATA

506

DATA

507

DATA

508

DATA

509

DATA

510

DATA

511

DATA

512

DATA

513

DATA

THE MERCANTILE, "0817-2553" , "11/86"

DRIVER'S LICENSE, "A-222115", "08/89"

HAPPY HOUR BAR & GRILL, "000-00-001" , "09/99"

SALLY'S HAIR SALON, "5-928-3",

MARTY' S MECHANICS, "522-88-6178" , "02/88"

XYZ INVESTMENTS, "3-6211-8497", "10/86"

SLICKER OIL CO. , "41-28545", "08/88"

JOE'S TOOL CO. , "83214", "09/90"

LE CAFE CLUB, "523-523-9929", "01/87"

HARRY'S HEALTH CLUB, "21-88-44-669789" , "02/92"

OLIVE 1 S GAS-M-UP, "499-276-366" ,

End of listing.

The subscripts you use in a DIM
statement can be numeric variables,
as long as the variable has an appro-
priate numeric value. (Refer to line 20
in the Program listing.)

You don't have to dimension an ar-
ray variable if the largest subscript
you intend to use is 10. However, it's
good programming practice to dimen-
sion all array variables. The DIM
statement helps provide some degree
of documentation for your program.
It's the only time in BASIC you de-
clare, or define, the variables you in-

tend to use. Some programming
languages, such as Pascal, require
you to declare all variables at the be-
ginning of your program.

Min and Max

For a picture of how arrays can
make data manipulation easier, con-
sider the following program segment,
which determines the minimum and
maximum values a list contains. The
segment assumes that an array, RS,
has been dimensioned to contain
1001 elements with a DIM RS(1000)

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command, and that 1001 values have
been read into the array:

700 MX = RS(0)

710 MN = RS(0)

720 FOR A = 1 TO 1000

730 IF RS(A) > MX THEN MX = RS(A)

740 IF RS(A) < MN THEN MN = RS(A)

750 NEXT A

Lines 700 and 710 assign the value
in the first array element to MX and
MN, the two variables that will ultimately
contain the list's maximum and mini-
mum values. Then a FOR . . . NEXT
loop, using A for the loop counter as
well as the array-subscript variable,
cycles through all of the 1000 remain-
ing values. When the loop encounters
a value larger than the current MX,
that value replaces the old maximum.
When it finds a value smaller than the
current MN, the program reassigns
MN to that value. When the loop is
finished, MX contains the list's maxi-
mum value, and MN its minimum
value.

Multiple Dimensions

The examples above use a single
subscript with each array-variable
name. These are one-dimensional ar-
rays, or simply lists. For many appli-
cations, this is all you need.

Applesoft BASIC lets you define ar-
rays in many more dimensions than
just one. For example, suppose you
have a two-dimensional grid, like a
checkerboard, and need to indicate
the presence or absence of some
condition relating to each square on
the grid. You could assign a value of
+ 1 to a square if the condition is
met, and a zero if it isn't.

The easiest way to handle this situ-
ation is to use a single array to repre-
sent the entire grid. If you call the
array SQ, you can pinpoint any
square in the grid with a row number
and a column number. Thus, SQ(0,0)
is the square in the upper left corner
of the grid, while SQ(10,15) is the
square in the lower right corner (as-
suming the grid has 11 rows and 16
columns).

You dimension this array with the
following DIM statement:
DIM SQ(10,15)

As you probably guessed, three-di-
mensional arrays have three sub-
scripts, four-dimensional arrays have
four, and so on. Applesoft lets you
define up to 88 subscripts for an ar-
ray variable, probably more than
you'll ever need— you'll run out of
memory long before you can use an
array with that many dimensions!

November 1986

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You control multidimensional arrays
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DIM A(6,12,9)

(This array has 7 x 13 x 10, or
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sequence:

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610 FOR Y = TO 12
620 FOR Z = TO 9
630 A(X,Y,Z) = 3
640 NEXT Z
650 NEXT Y
660 NEXT X

Or, if you want to fill all the ele-
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a sequence such as:

670 FOR X = TO 6
680 A(X,X,X) = 5
690 NEXT X

Data-Base Array

The Program listing uses three ar-
rays to contain the credit-card infor-
mation (company, card number, and
expiration date) the data statements
provide. Unlike last month's Data Filer
program, Data-Base Array uses the
FOR. . .NEXT loop in lines 210-230
to read the data base into the arrays
CDS, CN$, and ED$. From this point
on, the program can call up any ele-
ment in the data base for processing
at any time, without having to reread
the entire data base. Consequently,
you can separate the loop that dis-
plays the data from the loop that
reads it. The display loop appears in
lines 310-360.

The program adds one line to the
display so that short credit-card num-
bers can't alter the column with the
expiration date. Line 345 tells the
computer to send an extra tab (de-
noted by the comma) to the display if
the card number contains fewer than
11 characters. (One of life's little mys-
teries is why, with only five billion peo-
ple on the entire planet, credit-card
companies insist on using numbers
that contain as many as 16 digits!)

Conclusion

The Data-Base Array program pre-
sented this month may not appear to
be very different from last month's
Data Filer program. Its use of arrays,
though, sets the stage for a wide vari-
ety of programming capabilities that
aren't otherwise possible. In my next
column, I'll begin exploiting these ca-
pabilities by combining arrays with
FOR. . .NEXT loops to achieve greater
display control. So bear with me as
we expand the original Data Filer pro-
gram into a fully functional data-base
management system.

In the meantime, add subroutines
of your own design to carry out spe-
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"You can
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print your
exams."

by David Goodrum
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To foil peepers and cribbers,
teachers writing exams have to
spend a lot of time cutting and
pasting, copying, and moving ques-
tions to get different versions of each
test. Many teachers abandon word
processors and seek out separate
test-writing programs, a number of
which are slow, cumbersome, and
unfriendly.

The versatile AppleWorks data base
is a better choice: You can "teach" it
to format and print a multiple-choice
or true/false exam in several versions.
TestMaker, the name we'll give our
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lot of flexibility, too. The printed test
will look as good as any you'd type
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or a library of
questions from
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and TestMaker
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or true/false
questions.

Setting Up Your
Test Maker

The key-
strokes listed in
Table 1 will
help you design
the data base
and type in a few sample questions.

The first category will contain the
question number; type in "1." and hit
Return. Type in the sample question
and choices as shown in Figure 1.
Note that the data base can't perform
word wrap, so you must break the
question into separate lines. Test-
Maker gives you up to three lines for
your question. If you usually write
longer questions, you can design
your data base with additional space.

The sample shows up to five lines
for choices, but you're not limited to
five choices: Since you're labeling an-

swers with A, B, C, and so on, you
can place more than one choice on
each line, up to the full width of the
screen. This arrangement accommo-
dates short or long answers; an an-
swer can even continue onto a
second line. And you can use Test-
Maker for writing true/false exams: In-
stead of several choices, T and F
would be the only options.

After you place the answer in the
ANS category and hit Return, you'll
see another blank record. Type in a
few sample questions of your own;
experiment with questions of different
lengths and with varying arrange-
ments of choices.

When you finish entering questions,
press the escape key to return to
Review/Add/Change, then type OA-Z
(zoom) to view the file in multiple-
record format.

Customizing and Printing

You now need to customize the lay-
out of the data-base screen to see
the question number, the first part of
the question, and the reference.
When you're trying to get a quick
overall view of your test questions or
need to choose questions for a partic-
ular test, this view should give you
enough information to make your de-
cisions and number your questions.
Follow the keystrokes in Table 2 to
customize the TestMaker layout to re-
semble Figure 2.

The template is still incomplete until
you create a Print Format that will get
the test out of the computer and onto
your printer paper. You want a label-
type print report that will omit blank
lines and allow for different question
sizes and printed spaces between
questions. AppleWorks will automati-
cally keep a question and its choices
together, so that questions won't be
split across the page break.

Follow the keystrokes in Table 3 to
make the Print Format called PRINT
TEST as shown in Figure 3.

TestMaker is now ready for action.
Type OA-P (print) and respond to
prompts to print your first test. If
you're a teacher, grab a few students
for a pop quiz. If you're not a teacher,
give your children or relatives an
exam on Who's Who in your family.
Don't forget to type the documenta-

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TEACHERS' CHOICE

tion in Figure 4 into an AppleWorks
word-processing file you name "DOC
.testmaker" and save it on the same
disk with TestMaker.

Next month we'll take a break from
AppleWorks and "get down to BASICs"
to create a program that converts
raw scores to percentages and letter
grades.!

David Goodrum and Joel Robbins
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Figure 1. Sample question 1 as it appears on your AppleWorks, screen.

File: TESTMAKER INSERT NEW RECORDS Escape: Review/ Add/change

Record 1 of 1

: 1.

QUESTN: In quest of the New World, what ships were taken by Christopher
- : Columbus?

: : A. Nina

: : B. Pinta

: : C. Santa Maria

: : D. All of the above

REF: -
ANS : D.

Type entry or use @ commands §-? for Help

Figure 2. Customizing the Record Layout on your AppleWorks screen.

File: TESTMAKER CHANGE RECORD LAYOUT Escape: Review/ Add/Change

— > or < — Move cursor

> @ < Switch category positions

— > @ < — Change column width

@-D Delete this category

@-I Insert a previously deleted category

QUESTN REF
1. In quest of the New World, what ships were taken by Christopher

More — >

Use options shown above to change record layout 50K Avail.

Figure 3. Creating a Print Format on your AppleWorks screen.

File: TESTMAKER REPORT FORMAT Escape: Report Menu

Report: PRINT TEST
Selection: All records

: 1 . <QUESTN

■Each record will print 9 lines-

Use options shown on Help Screen ?-? for Help

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Figure 4. Documentation for TestMaker data-base template.

TEMPLATE: TESTMAKER, data base

USES: You can make and store multiple-choice or true/false
questions in a file, then number or renumber the ones
you want for a particular test. The printout will
format the questions, allow a place for the student
answer, and allow a place for instructions, class
name, date, and the student's name.

PRINT FORMAT: PRINT TEST, labels: gives a printout of the
test questions you've created or
selected .

REMEMBER: In the multiple-record viewing mode, you'll see
only the first line of the question and the REF
(reference) category. In the single-record viewing
mode you'll see the entire question, page, chapter
or unit reference, and answer.

THINGS TO TRY:

1. Be in the single-record viewing mode — use Apple-Z
(zoom) if necessary. Use Apple-I (insert) to start
inserting or adding new questions.

2. Leave the : (number) category blank for now, or go

ahead and insert a number. Or, leave it blank or use
a zero, and you can use this record for INSTRUCTIONS
for the test (when you arrange by number field, a
blank category will go to the top of the list) .

3. Of course, there's no word-wrap, so you must finish or
hyphenate a word near the end of a line (category
QUESTN) before proceeding to the second or third line
(blank category) .

4. There are four categories that appear as : :

These are for your choices. Longer choices should be
put on separate lines. Shorter ones can be put
together; for example:

A. Nina B. Pinta C. Santa Maria
This gives a lot of flexibility to the maximum number
of choices. In fact, you could even extend the
question onto these lines if necessary. If a category
is left blank, nothing will be printed, so there's not
a lot of wasted space on the test.

5. The category REF can be used for a page, chapter,
unit, book reference, or key word. Arrange (OA-A) by
this category to group questions. Category ANS is
for the answer.

6. Choose the questions you want for a particular test by
placing the question number or question letter in the

: Category. You can do this quickly while in the
multiple-record viewing mode.

7. Sort the questions on the : Category, 0-9.

8. Use OA-P (print) to proceed to the Print Format
Catalog, highlight PRINT TEST and hit return. Use OA-R
(range), if necessary, to choose the range of
questions you want (there are a few steps to this
process; watch the prompts on the screen) . Use OA-N
(name) and return to go to the line where you can
specify the class name and date. Press OA-P again to
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file and choose the few you want, using OA-R (record

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base file for our multiple-choice test writer.

1 (return)
4 (return)
1 (return)
TESTMAKER ( return )
(OA-Y)

(underline key twice) (return)

QUESTN (return)

- (return) - (return)

: (return) : (return) : (return)

: (return) : ( return)

REF (return)

ANS (return)

(escape )

(space bar)

Chooses: Add files to the Desktop

Chooses: Data Base

Chooses: From scratch

Names our data-base file

Yanks the label : Category 1

Makes our answer blank for each question

and gives us the category for the

que stion number
Names our Question category
Gives us two more lines for each question

Adds up to five lines for the choices
Gives us a place for a textbook reference
Puts in a place for the answer
Exits template-design section
Places us into Insert New Records

Table 2. Keystrokes customizing the TestMaker layout

From the multi-record view:
(OA-L)

(OA-left arrow 12 times)

(right arrow twice)
(OA-D seven times)

(right arrow)
(OA-D)

(left arrow twice)
(OA-right arrow until the
REF category is pushed to the
right-hand side of the screen)

(escape)
(return)

Allows us to customize layout

Narrows the first category, leaving enough

room to show the question number
Moves cursor to 3rd category
Removes choice categories from view in the

multiple-record view
Moves cursor to ANS category
Removes ANS category from view
Moves cursor to the Q in the QUESTN category

Gives the 1st line of the question full view

Now compare to Figure 2

Quits customizing the screen layout
Chooses DOWN as the direction of RETURN

Table 3. Designing the TestMaker Print Format.

From Review/Add/Change of TESTMAKER:

(OA-P)
3 (return)
PRINT TEST
(OA-V)

( return)

(down arrow once)
(OA-right arrow 7 times)
(OA-up arrow once)
(OA-J)

(down arrow)
(OA-D)

(arrow down and over to the
beginning of REF)
(OA-D three times)

(OA-N) (return)

NAME

'_( return)

(OA-O)

PH (return)

KS (return)

BM (return)

(escape)

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Names our print format

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Moves QUESTN to the right

Moves QUESTN up next to the : category

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Moves cursor to blank space
Deletes empty line

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Large-Program Tools — Part 1

"Apple Pascal
comes with
tools to help
you divide
large
programs into
manageable
pieces."

by Tom Swan

Apple Pascal comes packed with
tools for writing large programs.
Three of these tools— chaining,
segments, and units— can help you
compile massive projects, even those
with tens of thousands of statements,
that run as though your 64K Apple
had many times as much memory.
This month I'll explain how to use
chaining and segments to divide large
programs into manageable pieces. I'll
cover units in the next part of this
two-part miniseries.

Hoisting the Pascal Chain

Imagine a chain passing through
several programs you want to run in
order. If you could stand inside your
Apple and wind in the chain, you'd
pull each successive program into
memory. The programs would appear
to run as a unit, perhaps with brief
pauses at the start of each new link
in the chain as you— with a little help
from the Pascal operating system-
haul in programs from disk.

You form such imaginary chains by
telling your programs which new pro-
grams to run next. As an example,
type in Listings 1, 2, and 3. (See
the September 1986 Pascal Primer, p.
93, for complete instructions for typ-
ing Pascal listings.) MENU, CHOICE1,
and CHOICE2 demonstrate a typical
menu-driven design that runs as a
collection of chained programs. In this
demonstration, the menu selections
A(dd and D(elete are merely for
show— they don't actually add or de-
lete anything. Compile and execute
MENU (Listing 1) to start the demo.
Type A to run sub program CHOICE1
(Listing 2); type B to run CHOICE2
(Listing 3); type Q to quit.

MENU chains from one program to
another with help from the ChainStuff
library unit— a collection of precom-
piled routines, plus a few other good-
ies. The actual programming for
ChainStuff is in file SYSTEM. LIBRARY
on your APPLE1 : disk. Line 2 of
MENU includes this programming with
the phrase "uses ChainStuff;" immedi-
ately after the program declaration.

Parents and Children

Chaining occurs in procedure
ChainTo in lines 7-12 of the main
program, MENU, which some pro-

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grammers call the parent process.
Line 9 gives procedure SetChain the
name of the next program, or child
process, in the chain. SetChain merely
prepares for an eventual chain to an-
other program. The actual chaining
occurs when the parent process
ends, passing control to its child.

This leads to two methods for run-
ning a child process. As the MENU
example shows, you can use the
statements

SetChain( ProgramName );
Exit( program );

to tell ChainStuff which program to
run when it gets to the Exit statement.
An even easier method is simply to
end your program the usual way.
Whichever method you use, Chain-
Stuff executes the program name you
last gave to SetChain.

Errors in Chaining

If one program chains to a non-
existent program, the computer dis-
plays the error message "No file
CHOICE1.CODE" and halts. To avoid
this error, replace procedure ChainTo
in the MENU example with the pro-
gramming in Listing 4. Now, before
chaining, the new procedure tries to
reset the filename you give ChainTo.
If that fails, it asks you to insert the
correct disk, waits for you to press
the return key, and then tries again.
You could use this method to chain to-
gether dozens of programs from sev-
eral disks.

To see how this works, make a
copy of your boot disk containing the
three demonstration programs. Re-
move CHOICE1 .CODE from one disk
and CHOICE2.CODE from the other.
Execute MENU and select the A(dd
or D(elete operation. If MENU can't
find the program for your selection, it
asks you to insert another disk and
press return.

Notice that line 7 in the new
ChainTo adds .CODE to Program-
Name in a concat (concatenation)
statement. Because of this, you can't
use a statement such as ChainTo
('CHOICE1.CODE') or the program
will mistakenly look for a file named
CHOICE1 .CODE.CODE. Notice also
how the procedure turns off input/out-
put error checking with the compiler
option (*$l-*) in line 5. If the built-in

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function ioresult returns zero with this
option in effect, then no error oc-
curred. Otherwise, the program knows
that the reset in line 13 failed, and
asks you to insert another disk.

Other Chaining Procedures

ChainStuff has a few other useful
procedures. SetCval stores a string in
memory where a child process can
read it with procedure GetCval. (Cval
means common value.) This lets a
parent process pass information to its
children— the only direct method for
passing data from one chained pro-
gram to another.

One neat use for SetCval is to pass
what I call a ComeFrom value to a
child process. A ComeFrom value is
a string containing the filename of the
parent process that chained to one of
its children. The child reads the Come-
From value to discover the name of its
parent and can then chain back to the
parent program that called it. This lets
programs return to different callers in
complex menu-driven systems in
which two or more menus call the
same sub program.

You can better understand this idea
with an experiment. Add the following
line between lines 14 and 15 in List-
ing 1, the parent process:
SetCval( 'MENU' );

Then add this string-variable decla-
ration between lines 3 and 4 in List-
ings 2 and 3, the children:
VAR

ComeFrom : string;

Finally, replace line 9 in Listings 2

and 3 with the following two lines:

GetCval( ComeFrom );
SetChain( ComeFrom );

After recompiling MENU, CHOICE1,
and CHOICE2, you're ready for the
test. Execute MENU and select the
dummy A(dd and D(elete operations;
they should work the same as before.
Quit MENU and execute CHOICE2
directly from the Pascal command
line. What then happens when you
press return?

Instead of chaining back to MENU,
the program simply ends because
line 24 in MENU passes a zero-
length, or null, string to SetCval when
you quit the program, and chaining to
a null string simply ends the program.

Knowing this, you can design sub
programs that operate as children of
a main parent (MENU in this exam-
ple), or as the adopted children of
still other parents. (Try writing your

Listing 1. MENU.TEXT.

PROGRAM Menu;

Uses ChainStuff;

VAR

ch : Char;

PROCEDURE ChainToC ProgramName : string );
BEGIN

SetChainC ProgramName );

WriteC 'Chaining to ProgramName, 1 );
exitC program ); (* chain occurs here *)

END;

BEGIN

Page( output ); (* clear screen *)

Write( 'Menu: A(dd, DCelete, Q(uit ? ' );
REPEAT

read( keyboard, ch )
UNTIL ch in [ ' A' , 'D' , ' Q' ] ;
WritelnC ch );

IF ch = 'A' THEN ChainToC ' CH0ICE1 ' ) (« A(dd *)

ELS E

IF ch = 'D' THEN ChainToC ' CH0ICE2 ' ) (* DCelete *)

ELSE SetCvalC " )

END.

Listing 2. CHOICE1 .TEXT.

0: PROGRAM Choicel ;
1 :

2: Uses ChainStuff;
3:

4: BEGIN

5: writeln;

6: writelnC 'Add records selection.' );
7: writeC 'Press return ...' );
8: readln;
9: SetChainC 'MENU' )

10: END.

Listing 3. CHOICE2. TEXT.

0: PROGRAM Choice2;
1 :

2: Uses ChainStuff;
3:

4: BEGIN

5: writeln;

6: writelnC 'Delete records selection.' );
7: writeC 'Press return ..." );
8: readln;
9: SetChainC 'MENU' )

10: END.

own alternate MENU programs and
pass their names as the ComeFrom
values to CHOICE1 and CHOICE2.)
You can also directly run the children
as stand-alone orphans.

Memory Swapping

ChainStuff has two other proce-
dures for increasing the amount of
memory available to your programs.
SwapOn causes portions of the oper-

ating system to share the same mem-
ory and, in the process, releases
2262 bytes for your program to use.
But you gain this memory at the ex- ^
pense of slower operation while Pas-
cal exchanges portions of itself from
disk. It's hard to predict whether this
swapping will go unnoticed or be-
come an annoying disadvantage. Usu-
ally, the more file handling in your
program, the slower it operates with
swapping in effect.

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PASCAL PRIMER

SwapOff turns swapping off, reduc-
ing available memory by 2262 bytes.
In Apple Pascal versions 1.2 and 1.3,
a third procedure, SwapGPOn, re-
leases an additional 800 bytes. (GP
refers to Get and Put.) Don't use
SwapGPOn if your program has Get
and Put statements or reads and
writes text files by other means, which
Pascal internally translates to the
same code Get and Put use. If you
ignore this warning, your program will
sluggishly read the disk for each

character transfer. In other words,
reading an 80-character string with
SwapGPOn will take 80 disk reads!

The three swapping procedures,
SwapOn, SwapOff, and SwapGPOn,
take effect after chaining to another
program. They have no effect on the
program that uses them. That may
seem strange, but swapping requires
internal initializing steps that Pascal
can take only before running a pro-
gram. Therefore, it delays turning
swapping on or off until you chain

somewhere else. In other words, you
can't swap your parents until you first
swap your children. (And I can't help
but wonder what you think of that
sentence if you started reading this
column in the middle.)

Segments

Segments are procedures (or func-
tions) that stay on disk until needed.
This lets you divide a large program
into pieces and load into memory
only one or more of its pieces at a
time. Because the segments share the
same memory, the program occupies
less memory than it would if the seg-
ment procedures were the regular
kind. And, unlike chaining, loading
segments takes only a brief mo-
ment—a tiny flash of the disk-drive
light is the only evidence that the op-
erating system is activating a new
segment.

To create a segment routine, add
SEGMENT to the front of a procedure
or function declaration. For example, this
creates a segment named OneSeg:

SEGMENT PROCEDURE OneSeg;
BEGIN

(* programming for OneSeg *)
END;

When you compile the program
containing that segment, Pascal cre-
ates the code for loading the proce-
dure from disk every time you call
OneSeg in your program. A program
usually has many segments that share
the same space. Although Pascal au-
tomatically organizes these segments,
loading the ones it needs and keep-
ing the others on disk, there are a
few restrictions.

Segment Restrictions

All code files contain a segment
dictionary, an array of slots containing
the pieces that make up a program.
To see this array, run LIBRARY from
APPLE3:, type X or some other
dummy output filename, and supply
the full name of the program you
want to examine. (Try MENU.CODE,
for example.) Type A to abort the
LIBRARY program. You can use
LIBRARY to examine code files because
they have the same form as library
files such as SYSTEM. LIBRARY. The
contents of library and code files dif-
fer, of course, but they're physically
the same.

If you're following along, you'll see
16 slots numbered zero to 15: These
are the segment numbers. The pro-
gram is segment zero. The first seg-

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ment procedure is number 1, the next
number 2. Because of the segment
dictionary's limited size, you can have
up to 15 segmented procedures in
one program.

Many people mistakenly assume
that nesting segments inside others in-
creases the maximum number of seg-
ments you can have. But this isn't the
case. You can certainly nest segment
procedures, but each still takes one
slot in the segment dictionary. For ex-
ample, the following procedure occu-
pies two dictionary slots, even though
procedure InSide is visible only from
OutSide's body:
SEGMENT PROCEDURE OutSide;

SEGMENT PROCEDURE InSide;

BEGIN

(* Inside programming *)

END;
BEGIN

(* Outside programming *)
(* InSide visible here *)
END;

Another restriction is that segment
procedures must come before any
regular procedures and functions.
This often poses a problem. How can
segmented procedures call the non-
segmented ones? As Listing 5,
SegDemo, shows, it's an easy prob-
lem to solve. Just declare regular
procedures FORWARD before any seg-
ments. Then insert the bodies (minus
any parameter lists) of the procedures
you earlier declared FORWARD.

SegDemo has two such FORWARD
procedures, Pause and GetTwo-
RandomNumbers. Segments Add and
Multiply call these two procedures,
whose bodies appear after the seg-
ments. The parameter list in GetTwo-
RandomNumbers appears only in the
FORWARD declaration. It doesn't re-
peat in the actual programming for the
procedure at line 41 . Similarly, the re-
sult type for the Random function ap-
pears only in the FORWARD
declaration.

When you compile and run Seg-
Demo, press return and watch your
disk-drive light. You should see a brief
flash when Pascal loads the program-
ming for the Add and Multiply
segments.

Segment Abuse

Never put calls to segment proce-
dures inside loops. If you use the
statement

FOR i : = 1 TO 500 DO
OutSide;

in your program, Pascal will load seg-
ments InSide and OutSide 500 times

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from disk, drastically slowing your
program. Generally, you should seg-
ment only main program operations.
Don't make the common mistake of
segmenting everything in sight.

If you must repeatedly call segment
procedures, place the compiler Resi-
dent option (*$R <name>*) immedi-
ately after BEGIN in the procedure or
program block that causes Pascal to
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nally, insert the following FOR loop in
place of lines 48-50:

FOR I := 1 TO 10 DO
BEGIN

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Listing 4. CHAINTO.

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PROCEDURE ChainTo( ProgramName
VAR

f : FILE;
BEGIN

ProgramName
(•$!-•)

string );

);

= concatt ProgramName, '.CODE'
(* turn off I/O error checking
reset( f, ProgramName );
WHILE ioresult <> DO
BEGIN

writeln ;

writeln( 'Put in disk with ', ProgramName );
write( 'Press RETURN to continue...' );
readln; (* wait for RETURN *)
reset( f, ProgramName )
END;

(*$I+*) (* turn on I/O error checking *)

SetChain( ProgramName );

WriteC 'Chaining to ', ProgramName, ' ..." );
exit( program ) (» chain occurs here *)

END;

Listing 5. SEGDEMO.TEXT.

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PROGRAM SegDemo;
VAR

Seed, a, b : integer;

PROCEDURE Pause;
FORWARD;

PROCEDURE GetTwoRandomNumbersC VAR x, y :
FORWARD;

SEGMENT PROCEDURE Add;
BEGIN

GetTwoRandomNumbers ( a, b );
writeln( a , ' + ' , b , ' = ' , a + b ) ;
Pause
END; (* Add *)

SEGMENT PROCEDURE Multiply;
BEGIN

GetTwoRandomNumbers ( a, b );
writelnC a, ' x ', b, ' = ' , a .* b ) ;
Pause
END; (« Multiply *)

PROCEDURE Pause;
BEGIN

writeln;

write ( 'Press return...' );
readln
END; (* Pause *)

FUNCTION Random : integer;
CONST

Modulus = 7415;

Increment = 25543;
BEGIN

Seed := ( Seed + Increment ) MOD Modulus;
Random := Seed
END; (* Random *)

PROCEDURE GetTwoRandomNumbers;
BEGIN

x := Random;

y := Random
END; (* GetTwoRandomNumbers *)

BEGIN
Pause ;
Add;

Multiply
END.

integer );

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November 1986

Construct bar. line, pie, scatter, XX and
area charts or any combination of the
charts shown.

When you compile and run Seg-
Demo, Pascal loads the Add and
Multiply segments from disk ten times,
for a total of 20 disk reads. To repair
the problem, add this compiler option
just after the BEGIN at line 47:
(*$R Add, Multiply*)

That makes Add and Multiply resi-
dent throughout the body of the main
program, which again runs at top
speed. Of course, this also removes
the advantage of segmenting the pro-
cedures. With the R option in effect,
Add and Multiply are resident all of
the time. But usually, you'll use this
option only in some procedures that
call various segments— not in the
main program body, as in this
demonstration.

Pascal News

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programs in Pascal. But if you have
BASIC programs to convert to Pascal,
P-Tral is a great way to get a head
start on the job. (See inCider's review,
February 1986, p. 63.)

If you object to a columnist's self-
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But if you want information about Tom
Swan's Apple Pascal Toolkit, Volume 1 ,
send a note to the address at the end
of the column. The ideas for some of
the tools came from letters and com-
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And Finally. . .

Next time, I'll explain how you can
write your own units, just like the
TurtleGraphics and ChainStuff units
that come with Apple Pascal. Units let
you precompile your best routines
and store them in SYSTEM. LIBRARY,
where they're available to all your
programs. Along with chaining and
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for fitting large programs into small
computers. ■

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Continued from p. 45.

change preset sounds from the instru-
ment during track recording— begin-
ning with a flute and ending with a
trumpet sound, for instance. When
you play back a piece, the various in-
struments will chime in at the appro-
priate times.

MUSE can also keep track of infor-
mation about MIDI keyboards' modu-
lation wheel settings, or filter out the
information if desired (my Casio
doesn't support this feature). Further-
more, you can control the flow of
MIDI data from the instrument you're
playing; the default setting passes all
information to the computer, but you
can turn this off if you don't want to
hear a second attached synthesizer
while programming a sound on the
master keyboard.

The program lets you set three syn-
chronization modes: internal, MIDI
sync, and tape. Internal sync is the
default mode that determines the
tempo for recording and playback.

MIDI synchronization requires a sepa-
rate device that generates MIDI clock
signals, such as another MPU-401,
a Roland MSQ-700, or any sequencer
or drum machine; tape sync lets you
use an MPU-401 clock signal record-
ed on tape.

If you want to play back part of
your song repeatedly, MUSE will let
you set a loop for either a single
track or the whole song. For multi-
track recording, you can merge two
tracks, copy individual tracks, chain
them end-to-end, edit individual mea-
sures of chained tracks, or transpose
tracks up or down the scale. If
MUSE's myriad options get too over-
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er's memory and start all over.

Take It from the Top

What doesn't the MIDI Users Se-
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doesn't have a print feature, so you
can't transcribe your scores to sheet
music. For another, you don't actually
see the staff and your notes on

screen; the program is audio-oriented,
not visual. Also, MUSE can't act as a
sound editor; that is, it can't program
your synthesizer to create new sound
patches.

However, the program and accom-
panying hardware offer a great deal
of flexibility and power for the Apple
owner who wants to record and fine-
tune his or her own multi-voiced mu-
sic. The newcomer to MIDI can easily
get up and running with Roland's
package, while the expert will find
readily understandable and controlla-
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recommend MUSE for the intermedi-
ate to advanced user.

Roland supports its product with free
telephone assistance; a Roland user-
group magazine offers tips on getting
the most from its MIDI equipment. ■

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Productivity Trio

THE HANDLERS

Advanced Logic Systems, 1283
Reamwood Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089

File manager, word processor, and spelling
checker; 48K Apple II, II Plus, He, He,
DOS 3.3
$99.95

List

Word

Spell

Handler

ase of learning

■ ■■

Ease' of use

■ ■

Documentation

■ ■■

Support

■ ■■

Overall

■ ■

The old saying "You get what you
pay for" usually rings true for soft-
ware. Not so— at least, not entirely
so— for the Handlers. Advanced Logic
Systems' list manager, word proces-
sor, and spelling checker are surpris-
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mention inexpensive at $99.95 for all
three. That doesn't mean I'd choose
them over AppleWorks, but they do

have some worthwhile capabilities.

List Handler, while not a super-pow-
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impressive capacity— allowing some
3000 records on a single floppy, and
sorting them in a scant 45 seconds.
Each record can hold up to 255
fields, each field up to 200 charac-
ters, and the program can use up to
eight disk drives.

Unlike some programs that can
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easily mastered, with clear, concise
documentation and tutorial exercises.
Getting started is fairly straightfor-
ward—boot the List Utility side of the
program disk and the main menu will
appear; select "Create a New List"
and you're ready to key in the field
names.

You can change the field names
later if you choose, but if you want to
add a new one, it will be entered at
the end of your list. For example, if
your original list consists of name, ad-
dress, and telephone number, you
won't be able to add a company
name before the address later.

Once the field names are decided,
you write them to a list disk (a blank
disk formatted automatically). Each set
of names requires its own list disk, so
creating a new list destroys any ear-
lier one on that disk.

After that, you remove the list disk
and reboot the system with the List
Handler disk (the flip side of List Util-
ity). This main program uses mne-
monic control-key commands (the
delete key, in a minor inconvenience,
is nonfunctional in all Handlers pro-
grams). Helpful prompts at the bottom
of the screen guide confused users.

From the main menu, you can add
or find records, print labels or letters,
or print or mount list disks (you must
mount or log on a list disk before be-
ginning data entry or maintenance).
Select "Add Records" and your fields
appear on screen— only five at a
time, a minor hassle. Data entry is
simple and quick. The only trick is to
return to the main menu when you
exit so that the data won't be lost.

Finding and editing records is easy,
too, though List Handler can't scroll

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back through selected records. The
return key moves forward through
records matching your search criteria,
but you must run the search again to
review previous matches.

There are editing inconveniences
(although the well-written manual
points them out so that you don't dis-
cover them by accident). If you
change a misspelled word within a
field entry, the entire line of data is
erased and must be keyed in
again— particularly annoying if you've
just written a 200-character comment.
Also, any changed record is automati-
cally moved to the end of the file.
This could prove a nuisance if you in-
serted records in a certain order.

Not to dwell on the negative, but
List Handler lacks a counter; you
never know how many records you've
entered or labels you've printed un-
less you count them yourself. I often
charge list-maintenance clients by
number of entries or printed labels,
and I find a counter invaluable.

List Handler offers three printing op-
tions: form letters, labels, and lists.

Mail merge runs without a hitch with
Word Handler or any other DOS 3.3
word-processing document of up to
two pages. For quick convenience,
List Handler also provides up to 15
lines for entering a short document
(well, a postcard) directly.

To print, you specify a range (such as
everyone living in zip codes 70000-
80000 or all the Smiths in Cleveland),
then, if you want, a particular printout
order (numerical, alphabetical, or
chronological). On the next screen,
the input document, you design the
layout of your document. For exam-
ple, if printing a label, you would se-
lect the fields to be used in setting
up an address block. List Handler
tends to chop off characters unless
enough spaces to accommodate your
longest entry are set up beforehand;
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cated Fort Laud.

The last pre-printing step is simple
housekeeping: setting up paper width,
page length, margins, and so on. The
program is unforgiving here; if you

change your mind while selecting
printing options, you can't go back
through previous screens to review or
alter your choices. As with search
subsets, you must return to the main
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All Right to Write

Word Handler is to word processors
as List Handler is to data bases— an ad-
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Like List Handler, it's a treat for
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example, to delete characters. The
program disk has two sides, one con-
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instead of doing it automatically.

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• User programmable input ranges are
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REVIEWS

and printer, convert Word Handler
documents to DOS 3.3 text files, or
quit. Pick "Run Word Handler" and
you enter an "idle mode," the only
point where you can exit safely with-
out losing data and your cue to insert
or remove your data disk. Although
it's mentioned in the manual in sev-
eral places, there are no on-screen
prompts to warn you against writing
to your program disk.

Performance-wise, Word Handler is
pretty similar to most word proces-
sors. It offers word wrap, justification,
search, replace, move, and copy
functions, and can underline, bold-
face, and superscript text. On the
other hand, its insert mode is the
most unusual feature I found in the
entire Handlers package. When you
press control-l to insert text, every-
thing after the cursor temporarily dis-
appears from the screen. After typing
the new material, pressing the right
arrow brings back the old text and
returns you to edit mode. I found this
most distracting and difficult to use.

The control-F command lets you
format text for printing or use Word

Handler's built-in defaults. Printing is
accomplished by returning to the idle
mode (control-E is save and exit), se-
lecting the print option, and entering
the document name and number of
pages to be printed. Word Handler
can also print multiple copies of differ-
ent pages.

A Straightforward Speller

For those of you who never made it
to the finals of your school spelling
bee, Spell Handler might be able to
help. It contains a 2750-word RAM
dictionary for computers with less
than 128K, and a 90,000-word, disk-
based dictionary for Apples with 128K
or more. The main menu also lets
you use a custom dictionary (created
by typing a long sentence of your
chosen words), set the default drive
for documents to check, or get an in-
dex of documents on your data disk.

When you check a document, Spell
Handler will underline the last charac-
ter of any word it finds misspelled.
The manual says Spell Handler will
create an alphabetical list of mis-

spelled words at the beginning of
your document, although I was able
to see the list on screen only while
still in Spell Handler, not from the
word processor. After you select your
dictionary and name your drive and
document (be sure your data disk is
inserted at this point; there are no
handy reminders), the screen displays
the number of words read and the
number of misspelled words and lists
them alphabetically on the screen.

You may then exit to the main
menu, reboot Word Handler, call up
your document, and fix your errors.
It's no match for a spelling checker
built into a word processor, but it's
quick and simple.

Overall, the Handlers deliver fair
value for a low price. Though not
power users' dream programs, they're
simple to learn and easy to get
started, an advantage to consider
when purchasing software. ■

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each file you want to back up; for 10
megabytes, the task will take more
than 70 disks, not to mention more
than two hours of your time.

With First Class Peripherals' B-Sider
tape unit, this agonizingly long, boring
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Zero Defects, Almost

First Class claims its products are
defect-free because each one is
tested before going out the door.
That may be the case, but apparently
the shipping boxes could be stronger;
both my hard disk and the tape unit
arrived with problems that FCP attrib-
uted to shipping damage.

While my Sider's problem is mi-
nor—an LED that doesn't always light
when it should— the first B-Sider I or-
dered was dead on arrival. Unfortu-
nately, the poor manual that
accompanied the tape drive contrib-
uted to my not knowing about the unit's
condition for almost a full day.

Once I received a working B-Sider,
I found a minor inconvenience: The
unit has no power-on indicator. The
only way to determine whether the
tape drive is switched on is to check
the rear of the case to see whether
it's getting warm.

A Mediocre Manual

The B-Sider's documentation needs
a lot of work. It consists of a loose-
leaf binder with two major sections,
one for the Sider and one for the
B-Sider. The former is fairly complete,
but the B-Sider section isn't. For ex-
ample, the tape drive comes with a
ROM chip that's obviously meant to
be plugged into the Sider interface
card. Nowhere do the installation in-
structions mention where the chip be-
longs or how you're to install it; only
when I phoned the manufacturer did I
learn that a very short section on
ROM installation is buried in the
"Technical Addenda" in the back of
the manual.

Another shortcoming involved the
software that accompanied the tape
drive, including an excellent Backup/
Restore program written in Pascal.
The problem here is that all program
directions are geared to the first-time
user and assume that the hard disk is
empty (which makes installation sim-

ple and straightforward). However,
many potential B-Sider buyers already
own a Sider with a significant amount
of data on it, which they'd rather not
save to floppies and restore again. It
turns out that's not necessary, as a
quick call to the toll-free support line
resulted in excellent instructions for
getting started without losing existing
data. That simple explanation, how-
ever, should be in the manual.

Besides the manuals, some of the
B-Sider programs could be designed
better. For example, with the original
tape unit, my attempt to prewind a
cassette (recommended for all new
data tapes) generated an "Error 130"
message; nowhere in either manual is
there a list of error codes and their
meanings. In addition, when I tried to
format a blank tape, the program re-
fused to proceed, but also refused to
alert me that a possible problem
existed.

The Bright Side

Although this review may seem
overly negative so far, that gives a
false impression: The B-Sider is a su-

perb accessory and an absolute must
for every Sider or Sider II owner. While
my initial problems were very annoy-
ing, the system performed flawlessly
once I got it set up and working.

The First Class Peripherals support
people to whom I talked were cour-
teous, knowledgeable, and quick to
respond. Best of all, their help is free
thanks to the firm's nationwide toll-free
hotline.

While most computer-related warran-
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try practice, First Class will ship you a
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This kind of attitude makes me
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STATTUS REPORT

Dgja vu

"Standards can
inspire creativity,
but most
programmers are
still composing
doggerel."

by Paul Statt, inCider staff

■ 've seen it all before. That's my com-
I plaint about the current crop of Apple
IllGS programs. It's more of the same:
Macintosh word processors, Amiga painting
software, anybody's desktop publishing— it's
all been done.

This monotony is no surprise. I spent a
week last July looking at Hgs software— and
never saw an Apple Hgs. I admired paint-
ings on Amigas, marvelled at Mac graphics;
I saw an IBM PC AT; once or twice I even
saw a stock Apple lie souped up with a
Hgs motherboard. Most of the writers of
Hgs software sat down at a keyboard far
removed from an Apple II: They scribbled
C, Pascal, or assembly language on some
other computer. Like dutiful scribes, they
copied old programs onto the new machine.

IIGS developers were forced to use other
computers because Apple was slow to de-
liver Hgs firmware. Apple's C compiler for
the Hgs wasn't in the stores; the IIgs Con-
trol Panel wasn't on the shelves. Illiterate in
the "native tongue," programmers lapsed
into what they knew well— Amiga C or Mac-
intosh firmware, for example.

And Apple indeed designed the IIgs to
be able to hear the language of foreign
machines. IIGS firmware works like Macin-
tosh firmware to ease GS transcriptions for
Mac authors; transcriptions from Commodore
Amiga programs are easy because both the
Amiga and the IIGS are C machines, and C is
a portable language (see "Exploring the World
of C," p. 60 in this issue, for more information
on C programming).

A universal language and universal firm-
ware can inhibit variety in programming: If
your firmware has windows, your programs
are likely to have windows, even if the job
requires a door.

Standards can also inspire creativity:
Shakespeare penned sonnets, not free
verse. A common interface is firmware
form— and despite the inherent constraints,
not every Hgs word processor, for instance,
has to look like all the others, no more than
Elizabeth Barrett Browning sounds like William
Shakespeare. The trouble is most program-
mers are still composing rhymed doggerel.

There's hope for the art of computer pro-
gramming, though. At Electronic Arts, in
San Mateo, California, I was impressed by
a program called Electronic Artist's Work
Station— the company's home-grown C
compiler. It runs on the IBM PC AT, but it's
also a "cross-debugger" for every machine
for which Electronic Arts creates software,
except the Apple lie and lie. The result is
that the "artist" can write C code on the AT
and run it simultaneously on the IIgs,
Amiga, or Atari ST.

Jerry Morrison, Electronic Arts' technical
director, admits that the Electronic Artist's
Work Station is "a barrier to outside devel-
opment": That is, it makes it harder for
home programmers to come up with nifty
arcade games and sell them to software
companies. On the other hand, for the pro-
grammers at Electronic Arts, the Work Sta-
tion is a versatile tool that gives the creator
more time to think, to think about thinking,
and to simulate thought in software. That
task is tough enough; the designer doesn't
need to worry about print spooling, too.

Good software is the product of hard
thinking, not neat hardware. When will you
see some really good software for the Ap-
ple IIgs? You'll see it when software devel-
opers quit trying to mimic the success of
the Macintosh, Amiga, or any other ma-
chine. They'll take some of the time the uni-
versal language and firmware of the IIgs
have saved them, and sit down for some
creative thinking about what the machine
can do.H

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"Software
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last place we
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by Eric Grevstad, inCider staff

The personal computer— I'll start with a
bland general statement; things will get
gamy soon enough— has found a role
in many areas of our lives, from sorting of-
fice files to managing home finances.
Lately, however, it seems that software ven-
dors are racing for the last place we need
them— the bedroom, with a new crop of
sexually oriented software. There are pro-
grams nowadays you have to hide from
your kids.

Computing has always been a male-domi-
nated industry, and there's always been a
small, naughty underground of lo-res strip
blackjack and racy MacPaint disks, but to-
day smut is rising to the surface. We at
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and wondered if readers might object to
the others, but no one seems to mind In-
terlude II from Recreational Technology
(11011 Richmond #600, Houston, TX 77042).
I'm more bemused than angered by it my-
self, but couples considering Interlude II
could better spend their $39.95 on cham-
pagne and pretty underwear.

The program (which isn't in the mood all
the time; the disk only booted on three of
eight Apples in our office) is correctly ad-
vertised as a game rather than sex therapy.
Players answer a series of questions about
their preferences (Interlude invariably asks
how erogenous your feet ); the program
then presents one to fivf )ropriate
scenarios.

The sex scenes are i lerly explicit,
though at various levels. A few are as mild
as "Spice Up Your Marriage" hints from
Redbook, others would fit into Cosmopolitan,
and the rest— well, one of inCider's least
feminist employees (he goes to strip clubs
on road trips) >uld only cry, "Gross!" It's
nice to take s ieak from software manuals
that discuss t ok-up and hardware require-
ments, but Interlude's gives safety tips for
bondage escapades.

Nothing described in 40-column capitals
will ever be tenderly erotic, but Interlude II
spoils even its low-key scenarios with crass
wisecracks— "That horny, huh?" "I feel your
fingers on my keys!" "My RAM's getting
tired." It nods toward affectionate lovemak-

ing, but Interlude's heart is in sniggering
scenario titles like "Peek-A-Boob" and
"Hookie Nookie."

Things don't seem much better else-
where. Avalon Hill, an outfit best known for
war games, has signed the chirping coun-
selor Ruth Westheimer for Dr. Ruth's
Game of Good Sex. I haven't seen the
software yet, but watched her TV show and
saw a commercial for the board game— two
couples laughing hilariously at "Zipper
stuck, lose a turn."

Infocom, the nonpareil text-adventure
company, promises rollicking sex comedy
with the forthcoming Leather Goddesses
of Phobos, but the game also promises a
headlong dive into tackiness (a voluptuous
3-D comic book and clues on scratch-and-
sniff cards).

Before you call me a miserable Puritan,
let me admit not only that sex is part of life,
but that I've seen it treated tastefully in one
software package— Activision's Alter Ego.
The "game" part of psychologist Peter Fa-
varo's simulation is a dull job of periodically
rating your assumed personality's happi-
ness, trustworthiness, and similar scores,
but the life experiences are realistic, matter-
of-fact vignettes. That applies to the ones
about sex as well as those about schooling,
work, and finances.

When Activision sent the female version, I
thought I'd be a voyeur at girls' locker-
room scenes; instead, I found sensitive ac-
counts of everything from adult affairs to
high-school dating (I'd forgotten how terrible
teenaged boys are). The male version is a
bit lewder, with temptations from hookers
and strippers, but Alter Ego generally
avoids prudishness and prurience alike.

In the words of James Thurber and E.B.
White {Is Sex Necessary?), "Sex is by no
means everything. It varies, as a matter of
fact, from only as high as 78 percent of
everything to as low as 3.10 percent. The
norm, in a sane, healthy person, should be
between 18 and 24 percent." I'm not sure
we need to have sex in software at all, but
we can certainly do better than the down-
and-dirty attitude of Interlude II. Relation-
ships start with holding hands, not elbowing
people in the ribs. ■

150

November 1986

Andrew P. Niemic
President of Checkmate Technology

WHAT DOES CHECKMATE OFFER YOU?

MultiRam RGB - 1 megabyte capacity memory card for
the Apple //e that is expandable to 7 megabytes. Features
include a built-in RGB video card. Priced from $199.95
(64K, suggested list). Battery-backed option available soon.

MultiRam //e - 3/4 megabyte capacity memory board for
the Apple He. Large memory for a small price! Priced from
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MultiRam //EX - the original and the best no-slot "mini-
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(suggested list).

MultiRam CX & 16-bit Option - 1/2 megabyte
capacity memory board for the Apple //c. Features simple
installation with no soldering or disk drive removal. With
the addition of the CX Kit, the He may also be upgraded to a
true 16-bit computer. Prices start at $199.95 (256K, sug-
gested list). Optional 65816 Kit - $119.95 suggested list.

MultiRam CX PLUS - this "piggyback" board for the
MultiRam CX allows an additional 512K RAM to be added,
for a total of 1 megabyte on your Apple lie. Prices start at
$249.95 (256K, suggested list).

MultiRam Software - the key to releasing the power of
your MultiRam card is provided with each memory card.
Includes AppleWorks™ expander, RAM disk software and a
complete set of utilities for maintaining your card.

All MultiRam memory boards are fully com-
patible with International Apples. For complete
information about our newest products, please
call TOLL-FREE (800) 325-7347, local
(602) 966-5802, or write for information.

Andrew P. Niemic, President of
Checkmate Technology speaks out.

"Many Apple II owners find that buying a RAM card is
a confusing process. Conflicting claims by manufacturers
only cloud the issue".

"User Groups are known for being knowledgeable and
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1986.

"After using the Checkmate MultiRam RGB, I
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"The MultiRam RGB card is presently the most
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GETTING THE VALUE YOU DESERVE

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Send your completed warranty card along with your original purchase
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Circle 227 on Reader Service Card.

NEW PRODUCTS

Epson's LQ-2500 dot-matrix printer has draft and letter-quality
modes, and can store up to 14 print-function commands.

edited by Lafe Low

Quick and Easy

A trio of new dot-matrix
printers from Epson fea-
ture high speed and easily
defined typestyles.

The Epson EX-800 prints
at a rate of up to 300 char-
acters per second in draft
mode and 54 cps in near-
letter-quality, making it Ep-
son's fastest nine-pin
printer. Eliminating the need
to memorize control codes
or change DIP switches, its
eight-button typestyle-selec-
tion panel lets you choose
from draft, pica, elite, nor-
mal, NLQ roman, NLQ
sans serif, proportional, and
condensed typefaces. For a
little extra, you can have a
color-output option that can
produce seven hues and a
32K expanded print-buffer
option. The Epson EX-800
sells for $749.

The EX-1000 is Epson's
fastest nine-pin wide-car-
riage printer, running at
speeds of up to 300 cps in
draft mode and 60 cps in
near-letter-quality. The 136-
column EX-1000 is suitable
for producing spreadsheets,
business graphics, engi-
neering applications, and
other wide-format docu-
ments. Like the EX-800, the
1000 features the Selec-
Type II control panel, which
lets you choose from eight
typestyles by pressing a
button.

The LQ-2500, a 24-pin
dot-matrix model, prints at
324 cps in draft mode and
108 cps in letter-quality
mode. The SelecType III
liquid-crystal-display panel
lets you enter and store
commands for 14 printer
functions. The LQ-2500 is
flexible enough for high-

speed, large-volume print-
ing and high-resolution let-
ter-quality printing. The
Epson EX-1000 and LQ-
2500 retail for $995 and
$1595, respectively, from
Epson America, 2780 Lo-
mita Boulevard, Torrance, CA
90505, (213)539-9140. Cir-
cle Reader Service number
369 for more information.

Hard Driving

HardWorks is a 20-mega-
byte hard drive that's less
sensitive to the bus noise
and odd timing of some
Apple II and Franklin com-
puters. HardWorks supports
DOS 3.3 and ProDOS, Ap-
ple Pascal, and Softcard or
PCPI CP/M. The hard-disk
drive retails for $999; three
versions of software (sup-
porting different operating
systems and controller
cards) are available, rang-
ing in price from $69 to
$149. Contact the A.S.C.I.I.
Co-op, 682 East Wind
Road, Tecumseh, MO
65760, (417)679-3526, or
circle Reader Service num-
ber 365 for more information.

Sound Idea

Synthesize speech, mu-
sic, and sound effects on
your Apple with The Pha-
sor, a synthesizer card

with 12 simultaneous sound
channels and four white-
noise generators. It's fully
compatible with the Mock-
ingboard, the ALF music
card, Symphonix, and the
Super Music Synthesizer.
The card's ProDOS-based
software includes a music
editor, sound-effects editor,
text-to-speech converter,
and more than 30 songs
and sound effects. The
Phasor retails for $179,
from Applied Engineering,
P.O. Box 798, Carrollton,
TX 75006, (214) 241-6060.
For more information, circle
Reader Service number 364.

Monster Mash

Keep your printer cables
from snagging your paper
with Monster Cable's new
90-degree Centronics
connectors. They feature a
right-angle hood design that
directs the printer cable out
of the path of continuous-

feed paper. Monster Ca-
ble's new line also features
relocatable pins, which let
you change the cable-con-
nector pin configurations to
suit a wide variety of hard-
ware and peripherals. Get
in touch with Monster Ca-
ble, 101 Townsend Street,
San Francisco, CA 94107,
(415) 777-1355, or circle
Reader Service number
366 for more information.

Power Up

Now you can turn on
your entire computer sys-
tem with a single switch.
The Power Mouse remote
power-control unit lets
you connect up to five sep-
arate components or pe-
ripherals. It also protects
your system against voltage
surges, electromagnetic in-
terference, radio-frequency
interference, and static, and
your modem and telephone
line against spikes and
surges. The remote power
module mounts unobtru-
sively under your desktop
or table. Control your sys-
tem for $199.95 with the
Power Mouse, from Net-
worx, 203 Harrison Place,
Brooklyn, NY 11237, (212)
821-7555. Circle Reader
Service number 371 for
more information.

Networx's Power Mouse
gives you remote control of
five computer components.

152

November 1986

Disky color-coded floppy disks from Boeder Magnetics are
available in single- and double-sided storage formats.

Colorful Disks

Keep your disks in order
and recognize them at a
glance. The Disky line of
color-coded 5%-inch flop-
pies comes in red, blue,
yellow, and green. These
high-quality disks from West
German manufacturer Dob-
belin & Boeder are avail-
able in single- or double-
sided storage and are tem-
perature-resistant up to 63
degrees centigrade. These
colorful disks come in
packages of ten (two of
each color plus two black)
for $18 (single-sided) or
$19 (double-sided) from
Boeder Magnetics (Ameri-
can subsidiary of Dobbelin &
Boeder), 828 Hillcrest Boule-
vard, Inglewood, CA 90301,
(213) 216-0771. For more in-
formation, circle Reader Ser-
vice number 370.

Universal Interface

Hook your computer up
to just about any other
electronic device with the
Simple Interface lie System,
a general-purpose I/O
system. You can connect

up to eight switches for
lamps, relays, or small mo-
tors to construct your own
security system, home con-
troller, light display, or what-
ever system you like. The
Simple Interface lie card
plugs into a CPU slot and
is connected by a 36-inch
cable to signal conditioning
circuits housed in a sturdy
cartridge case outside the
CPU. Program your opera-
tions through BASIC or ma-
chine-language commands.
The Simple Interface He
card retails for $46.95, from
Proteus Electronics, Spayde
Road RD2, P.O. Box 693,
Belleville, OH 44813, (419)
886-2296. Circle Reader
Service number 368 for
more information.

Software

Your Choice

Activision has diversified
into home and personal
productivity with its Per-
sonal Choice Software line.
Writer's Choice, Filer's
Choice, and Planner's
Choice are the first prod-
ucts in this new series,

available individually or as
a set, the Personal Choice
Collection. Writer's Choice
includes a full range of writ-
ing and editing features, a
50,000-word spelling checker,
help screens, and a full lay-
out-preview option. Filer's
Choice lets you create cus-
tom "index cards" and sort
records alphabetically or
numerically. Planner's
Choice features horizontal
and vertical windowing (to
view different sections of
the spreadsheet simulta-
neously) and adjustable col-
umn width. Designed to
work together or individ-
ually, the Personal Choice
Collection retails for
$119.95, or $49.95 each,
from Activision, 2350 Bay-
shore Frontage Road,
Mountain View, CA 94043,
(415) 960-0410. For more
information, circle Reader
Service number 350.

Seeing Stars

You don't need a tele-
scope to see the stars:
Three astronomy pro-
grams from Hubbard Sci-
entific teach you all about
stars and constellations.
Computer Star Games/Stel-
lar 28 is a series of 28-plus
games and activities that
help you learn about more
than 100 stars and constel-
lations. It's available sepa-
rately or combined with the
board game Stellar 28.

Computer Starfinder, a
data base of planets and
constellations, includes a
graphics library showing
the positions of stars ac-
cording to year, month,
day, hour, and minute for
the years 1900 to 2100
A.D. The program is also
available with the book
Seasonal Star Chart.

Astro-Data Bytes is an
up-to-date data bank of as-
tronomy facts with informa-
tion on comets, asteroids,
meteors, moons, planets,
stars, celestial phenomena,
discoveries, events, and in-
struments. The program
also comes with the Hub-
bard Astronomy Fact Book.
Computer Star Games and
Computer Starfinder retail
for $44.95 with game or
book, $39.95 without. Astro-
Data Bytes is priced at
$59.95 with accompanying
book, $58 without. The
three programs, with games
and books, are also sold
as a set for $145, from
Hubbard Scientific, 1946
Raymond Drive, North-
brook, IL 60062, (312) 272-
7810. Circle Reader Service
number 372 for more infor-
mation.

Study the heavens with Hub-
bard's astronomy programs.

Product descriptions con-
tained in this section are
based on information sup-
plied to us by the respec-
tive manufacturers. These
announcements are pro-
vided solely as a service
to our readers and do
not constitute endorsement
by inCider of any given
product.

inCider

153

BOOSTER

Kix is a Powerful
ProDOS Shell which
Increases the Productiv-
ity and Ease of Use of Your
Apple II.

Add the power of UNIX to ProDOS! Print
■ — \r y directories, manipulate files, search for key
\, / words, protect files, compare documents, and
more— quickly and easily.
KIX is also a Powerful Acccessory to
AppleWorks.
Call KIX commands directly from the desktop, without
leaving AppleWorks! KIX saves you valuable time every
time you use your computer!

TR Y IT FOR 30 DA YS!
If KIX doesn't save you a lot of valuable time,
return it for a refund.
You can't lose!
At $49.95, KIX is a Real Bargain!
To Order Call:

415-626-2080

Send Check/Money Order to:

Kyan Software Inc. Dept 7
1850 Union Street #183
San Francisco, CA 94123

Enclose $4.50 for shipping; $1 5.00 outside North America; Calif, residents
add 6.5% sales tax. KIX requires 64K of memory and two disk drives.

Circle 91 on Reader Service Card.

BUSINESS • SCIENCE • EDUCATION

The complete
Apple II
statistical
package
for only:

APP-STAT™

A Powerful Tool for Data Analysis and Forecasting

• Easy to use, no commands to memorize (menu-driven)

• Descriptive Statistics, t-tests (independent and dependent
samples), General ANOVA/ANCOVA (up to five factors,
unlimited number of cases, Repeated Measures, unbalanced
designs, contrasts, adjusted means, and more), Correlations,
Multiple Regression (up to 15 predictors, unlimited number of
cases), Crosstabulation, Significance Tests, 10 Nonpara-
metric Statistics, and more

• User defined (multiple) conditional selection of subsets of
cases, various ways of treating missing data

• Flexible Data Editor, easy entering/editing of data, complex
(conditional) transformations of variables, and more

• Can also access files created by spreadsheets and data bases

• Barcharts, Scatterplots, clear comprehensive output

• Will run on APPLE II+, lie and lie with 80 column display, 1
disk drive

To order send check or money order for $99
(plus $5 for shipping and handling) to:

StatSoft

2832 East 10th Street, Suite 4, Tulsa, OK 74104. (918) 583-4149

ASK ABOUT THE VERSION FOR MACINTOSH!

Apple and Macintosh are a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.

NEW PRODUCTS

The French
Connection

Travel to the City of
Light with Ticket to Paris. In
this simulation of Parisian
life, you book a hotel
room, visit the Louvre,
change money at a bank,
and dine in a fancy restau-
rant. You can speak French
to get around in the city,
but if you get stuck, the
game includes an English-
language option. Get a
taste of life in Paris while
brushing up on your French.
Ticket to Paris sells for
$39.95, from Blue Lion
Software, P.O. Box 650,
Belmont, MA 02178, (617)
489-2477. Circle Reader
Service number 361 for
more information.

Print That Tune

Musicians can now write
complex notation on their
Apple ll's with MusicPrinter.
This composition program
permits fast entry of notes,
chords, and a full range of
musical characters, and in-
cludes its own word pro-
cessor with three font styles
for inserting lyrics. You can
print your music as single
lines, full scores, or individ-
ual parts in normal, com-
pressed, and emphasized
modes. MusicPrinter sells
for $149, from Temporal
Acuity Products, Building
One, Suite 200, 300 120th
Avenue NE, Bellevue, WA
98005, (800) 426-2673. For
more information, circle
Reader Service number 362.

Two-D Design

CAD-2 Professional al-
lows advanced two-di-
mensional drafting, with
time-saving functions such
as auto-dimensioning, mag-
netic point snap, and user-
definable snap grids. You
can easily extend flat draw-
ings to three dimensions,
then view them from any
angle, distance, or height.

CAD-2 Professional includes
RoboView, a three-dimen-
sional-perspective program,
and RoboData, a bill-of-ma-
terials program. This pack-
age retails for $1720, from
Robo Systems, 1 1 1 Pheas-
ant Run, Newtown, PA
18940, (215) 968-4422. Cir-
cle Reader Service number
363 for more information.

Shopping for Numbers

Challenge your students
with real-life work situations
in the Math Shop mall. Stu-
dents enter any of the ten
shops, and, using their
math and problem-solv-
ing skills, lend a hand by
making donuts, cutting lum-
ber, distributing eggs, or
any of a variety of other
chores. The school edition
of Math Shop sells for
$87.45, the home version
for $49.95, from Scholastic
Software, 730 Broadway,
New York, NY 10003, (212)
505-3000. For more infor-
mation, circle Reader
Service number 357.

Collection Organizer

Stamp and coin collec-
tors can organize their ma-
terial with specially designed
data bases from Andent.
The Stamp Collector and
The Coin Collector each
consist of six programs that
help you organize your for-
eign and domestic stamps
or coins by denomination,
country, description, year,
value, Scotts catalog num-
ber, and source. A Meeting
List in each program lets
you sort and select gather-
ings by date and location.
A Source List gives you
names of suppliers and in-
formation on trades and
liquidations. The Stamp Col-
lector and The Coin Collec-
tor retail for $49 each, from
Andent, 1000 North Ave-
nue, Waukegan, IL 60085,
(312) 223-5077. Circle
Reader Service number
351 for more information.

154

Circle 115 on Reader Service Card.

November 1986

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NEW PRODUCTS

Product Updates

itest edition of
: iler has some
new features and en-
hancements: Version 1.1.4
can copy and paste direc-
tories, and includes a de-
lete function that operates
xies and subdi-
In addition, the
file-copy buffer size has
Tcreased by 250
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change directories. Mouse-
Filer version 1.1.4 sells for
$39.95. from Harbor Soft-
ware. 430 Great Road.
Suite 8. Acton. MA
01720. (617) 263-1870.

• Blue Chip Software is
bundling three of its finan-
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packages for educational
use Millionaire, Tycoon,
and Baron will come in
one package, The Chal-
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manual for each program.
Students can get a feel
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through simulations of
stock-exchange, real-es-
tate, and commodities
markets. Invest in The
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from Blue Chip Soft
6744 Eton Avenue,
ga Park. CA 91303. (818)
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To the Moon

Explore the surface of
the moon, or at least pre-
tend to, in the new adven-
ture game Lunar Explorer:
A Space Flight Simulator.
Maneuver your craft over
the moon's rugged surface,
perform rescue missions,
and touch down at lunar
bases, refueling stations, or
the Apollo 11 landing site.
Become a space pilot for
$40, from Electric Transit,
501 Marin Street, Suite 116,
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360,
(805) 373-1960. For more
information, circle Reader
Service number 358.

Resources

Circle 46 on Reader Service Card.

Electronic Magazines

Seven of Time Incorpo-
rated's publications are
going to be offered on the
Vu/Text electronic informa-
tion service. Time will be
the first on-line magazine,
and the others— Life, For-
tune, Sports Illustrated, Peo-
ple, Money, and Discover—
will follow shortly. Vu/Text is
the world's largest full-text
newspaper data bank with
more than 30 publications,
including The Boston
Globe, Chicago Tribune,
Detroit Free Press, Miami
Herald, and Philadelphia
Enquirer. Contact Vu/Text
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1211 Chestnut Street, Phila-
delphia, PA 19107, (215)
665-3300, or circle Reader
Service number 356 for
more information.

65816 Help

Programmers working on
computers using the 65816
chip (the Apple Hgs' CPU)
will want to take a look at
these two new books. Pro-
gramming the 65816, by
William Labiak, is an intro-
duction and reference for
programming systems in
native machine language. It

covers 65816 hardware or-
ganization, 8- and 16-bit
modes, the complete 65816
instruction set, detailed
command explanations,
6502-emulation techniques,
serial and parallel I/O, and
other programming struc-
tures. 65816/65802 Assem-
bly Language Programming,
by Michael Fisher, dis-
cusses code conversion,
sorting and searching, sub-
routines, I/O and interrupts,
testing and debugging, and
includes a wide range of
programming information
for beginners and experts.
Programming the 65816 re-
tails for $33.95, from Sybex
Computer Books, 2344
Sixth Street, Berkeley, CA
94710, (415) 848-8233.
65816/65802 Assembly
Language Programming
sells for $19.95, from Os-
borne/McGraw-Hill, 2600
Tenth Street, Berkeley, CA
94710, (415) 548-2805. For
more information, circle
Reader Service number
353 or 354, respectively.

Music Lovers On Line

If you're a music lover
with a computer and mo-
dem, check out The Audio-
phile Network, a new data-
board system that lists
information, specifications,
prices, and the latest news
on high-end stereo compo-
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November 1986

THE ONE VITAL PIECE OF

OFFICE EQUIPMENT
THAT OUR DESKWORKS
PROGRAMS DONT REPLACE

They don't make coffee. But together,
PBI's three top-selling business products
can make your day a lot easier. Eliminate
hours of busywork, organize loose ends,
turn your Apple II into a powerful communi-
cations tool and increase the power of
AppleWorks.

Introducing CommWorks™*

The Gomplete
Telecommunications Solution

No other com-
munications software
package is as easy
to use and as powerful
as PBI's Comm-
Works. It's a logical
companion to Apple-
Works. CommWorks can save you time
and money; imagine being able to access
your favorite section of CompuServe auto-
matically at the touch of a key. Transfer
AppleWorks and ProDos files or even whole
disks instantly (5M" or
3'/2")-no conversion

necessary. With CommWorks' AppleWorks
file folder interface, auto log on facility,
macros, on-line text editor, and communi-
cations files, telecommunicating is faster
and more efficient than ever. CommWorks
even supports the Hayes 2400 baud
modem, 3.5 UniDisk,and popular RAM
expansion cards.

Jeeves,™ The Affordable
Persona l Assistant

It's the fastest desk-
top organizer avail-
able anywhere for the
Apple He and lie.
It replaces your
appointment book,
phone directory,
four-function calculator, memo pad, alarm
clock and more. It resides transparently in
RAM memory alongside AppleWorks,
CommWorks or other ProDos based pro-
grams, so it's always there instantly
upon command.

GraphWorks™
Two Programs in One

fill

What does Apple-
Works lack? Graphics.
Now put together
impressive presenta-
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GraphWorks enables
you to use data dir-
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create four different graph-types: pie, line,
bar, and stacked bar. Plus a bonus feature:
GraphWorks will even print your extra wide
spreadsheets "sideways" down the page.

Replace your outdated office equipment
with the DeskWorks line from PBI. It makes
the daily grind a whole lot easier. And
leaves you time for longer coffee breaks.
CommWorks $95.00. Jeeves $49.95.
GraphWorks $79.95. Available at your
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800-843-5722 (nat'i)
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1111 Triton Drive, 2nd Floor
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*Receive a free subscription to
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Send us your present communica-
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$25 discount on Commworks
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CommWtorks requires He (w/exL 80 column card & 128K)
or lie and modem. Jeeves requires stand alone lie or enhanced
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•GENERAL LEDGER 'ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
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Auto Repeats any keypress;
Shift-Key Modification allows for upper-
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Easy installation: no soldering

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0.5000

THE NORMAL CURVE
-I — i ! — > 1 — i 1-

WE TURN APPLES INTO GOLD WITH A
LITTLE ALCHEMY AND LOTS OF ENGINEERING

SINCE 1981

APPLE //E AND //+
& FRANKLIN 2000:

COLORMASTER $99.
KALEIDOSCOPE // $139.

FRANKLIN 1000, 1200: COLORMASTER $119.

KALEIDOSCOPE// $149.

Cards plug into slot 7. Can be interfaced with //+
80 column card, or//e 80 column/RAM card.
Compatible with all RGB monitors.

Cable and connector supplied. + much more.

APPLE IIC RGB: $119.
Mtl'M CPD 1310 super hi-res 13" RGB monitor: $385.

Bar Code Label System: S349
Bar Code Reader: S199

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IOLL FHEE

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-3.00 -ZOO -1.00 1.00
Argument

2.00 3.00

Function Plotting! APPLOT is a sophisticated curve plot-
ting program which eases the task of plotting any type
of data, especially scientific data, on Apple II com-
puters. Data may be entered from disk, the keyboard,
or by typing in any function, and APPLOT will plot it,
Only S 18,95, APPLOT's performance meets or exceeds
that of similar programs that cost S30, $40, or more.
Write Wesha Technologies, 4911 So. Canyon Road,
Rapid City, SD. 57702, or call (605) 348-0132. VISA and
Mastercard accepted.

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Great Christmas Gifts

Recommended by Roger Wagner

inCider Super Index

On-disk database summarizes inCider
Magazine, including programs, tips & letters.
Cross-references corrections and updates.
Ends fruitless searches through stacks of
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fixes. Guaranteed to save TIME and MONEY!
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AND/OR/NOT logical operators & wild card.
Search multiple disks with single keypress.
Find lost files, even if you forget their names!
Print reports. A.P.P.L.E's best seller! Bonus
SPEEDOS. Any APPLE II or III.

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Add: $2 Ship/handing, CA resid. 6.5% tax, Overseas $3
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Modem orders save 4%: 300/1 200 baud, 8 bit, no parity (21 3} 377-08C

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UNENHANCED vs ENHANCED
We do it both ways!

A MOUSETRAP is the solution
Now you can have it all

Mouse characters and old text characters
on your enhanced lie. Add mouse characters
to your original unenhanced lie. MOUSETRAP
is a plug in replacemnt module (or your character
generator ROM. Compatible with all lie's
enhanced or unenhanced. (U.S. standard MTSC)
Installs in 5 minutes. Includes two position
switch to select either old text or new mouse
characters. No other parts or programs necessary.
Mode can be switched at any time, or during any
program, which is better than any pre-boot
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$49.95-6 month limited warranty
To order directly by M7C or Visa, call
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check, allow additional 14 days.
Add $1 .50 tor shipping & handling.
For COD add additional $4.00
Colorado residents add 3.6% sales tax.

BONE FRONTIER CO.
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Dealer & Distributor inquiries invited
* Apple lie is a registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc.

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FOR APPLE HE, C, + & MAC

MUU1RAM RGB 1 Meg (Checkmate! He $269

-do— S12K (Checkmate) He $219

RAMWORKS III 1 Meg by AE for He $249

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RAMFACTOR I Meg $289, Battery B/U $1*9

-do- SI2K by AE for He/ + $269

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MUU1RAM CXS12K or CX + SI2K $199ea

10MB SIDER DRIVE or 20MB TAPE DR $589ea.

Excellent DRIVEIle/c = >$139, MAC/ + => $259

UNIDISK 5.25 $199, Drive Controller $49

FINGERPRINT $99; Printer/Modem cable $20

GRAPPLER + $89, 64K Buffered GRAPPIER $139

BUFFER P/P = > I28K $99, 512K $349, 2MB $895

SYSTEM SAVER lie/ + $59, for Macintosh $79

SURGE SUPPRESSORS w/EMl-RFI filter $19

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patibility in any

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158

November 1986

MDM-CHESS

Flay online chess
with
GRAPHICS!

For the Apple II + , lie, and He
40 and 80 columns

-n ■ b«b

MDM-CHESS

MDM-Chess works with any modem and allows:
Chatting, board editing; game transfer; and full
screen graphlosl Fast, and easy to modify.

Send Check/MO to Koan Enterprises
P.O. Box Middleton. Wl 53562

Add $SPSH t§5 non-U.S.1
795

$27?

Apple is a Trademark of Apple Computer. Inc.

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• Save hundreds of dollars on
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• Save hours of typing/clerical
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• Legal consultant:
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ONLY $39.95

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APPLE COMPATIBLES
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64K/80 Column BD (lie) $ 39

256K/80 Column BD w/Software (Me) $109
80 Column BD-Videx Compatible (II*) $ 49
Z80 CP/M BD-

Microsoft Compatible (ll+/lle) $ 38

16K Ram BD-

Expands II+ 48K to 64K (II*) $ 35

128K Ram BD-

Saturn (Titan) Compatible (IK/lle) . $ 89
Graphic Parallel BD w/Cable (H*/lle) . $ 45
Super Serial BD-

Great for Modems/Printers (ll+/lle) $ 49
Disk Drive H/H (Specify M*/lle or lie) $129

Numeric Keypad-16 Keys (lie) $ 35

Cooling Fan w/Surge Protect (ll+/lle) $ 29

Joy Stick (Specify IIVMe/ orllc) $ 15

Joy Stick w/Large Fire Button

on Stick (Specify) $ 25

Super Mini Vacuum Cleaner

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5516 Merritt Circle. Edina. MN !

\ Circle 149 on I

24 TERMINAL
EMULATIONS

Softerm 2, an advanced comm-
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• DEC VT52, VT100.VT102
•IBM 3101-20 (block mode)
•HP2622A ^^7801,7803

• DG D200 ... and many more.
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Indianapolis. IN 46220

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THE MARKETPLACE

Pascal Speed Up Systems

Our line of 6809 coprocessors offer
FASTER PASCAL, DISK CACHING,
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FULLY APPLE COMPATIBLE

2-80 CP/M Cartl S 39

80 Column Card w/lnverse (Videx compatible) S 58

Autoterm 80 Col w/Sottswitcb & Inverse

(Videx comp.) $ 68

Extended 80 Col w/64K Apple lie $ 45

Disk Controller tor 2 Drives $ 39

Parallel Printer Card w/Cable (Epson comp ) $ 37

Graphic Printer Card w/Cable (Parallel) $ 48

1200/300 Baud Modem External

(Fully Hayes compatible) S175

Super Serial Card w/Cable S 69

16K RAM Card w/Cable. $ 37

128K RAM Card w/Software & Instructions

(Titan. Saturn compatible) $ 110

Numeric Key Pad tor Apple lie S 39

Super Cooling Fan w/2 outlets

Lighted Switch. Surae/Filler S 34

Joy Stick - Center Return or Free Floating (Hayes

Mach III comp) Apple 11/11*. lie. He & IBM S 27

Diskette Storage Box w/Lock & Key. Holds 100 .... S 15

Disk Nolcher w/Guide. All Steel. Sguare Cut S 8

Slim Disk Drive - Direct Drive w/Elec Sensor.

Super Quiet. 1 Yr Warranty - Apple II* / lie $120

Apple lie $130

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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Reader Service Page

AST Research 1

54 Abacus Systems 1 38

75 American Mitac 2

Applied Engineering ..31,36,58,

59, 88, 89, 109, 111, 144, 145

Batteries Included 113

229 Beagle Bros 119

87 Berliner Software 1 59

151 Big Red Apple Club 112

* Bone Frontier 1 58

1 49 Brickhouse Software 1 59

102 Bristen Press 132

Business Computers

of Peterborough 82, 83

60 Central Point Software 126

62 Central Point Software 127

63 Central Point Software 129

Cheatsheet Products 1 28

227 Checkmate Technology 151

18 C.H.I.C 159

168 Clipcapture 91

79 Coit Valley 155

124 CompuServe 72, 73

1 83 Computer Network 1 06

142 Computer Plus Company . . .158

20 Computer Supply 160

76 Computist . ... 121

1 63 Core Concepts 40

Covox 95

31 Creative Peripherals Unltd. . . .20

* Curtis Manufacturing 74

74 Davidson 45

1 9 Davidson 1 74

80 Dealer Supplies 158

1 84 Digital Vision 112

108 Diversified Software 133

275 Dresselhaus 141

170 Electric Transit 4

148 Electronic Arts 9

189 Enlightenment Software 131

11 Fastfind 158

1 32 First Class Peripherals 56

295 Funk Software 63

78 Genial Software 159

146 Golem Computers 134

66 H&E Computronics CV3

254 H&M Disk Drives 143

228 Home Electronics 1 58

inCider Magazine

AppleWorks Newsletter 64

hotCider Sub Ad 96

inCider Sub Ad 48

Moving 170

Xmas Sub Ad 32

University Micros 140

157 Int'l Apple Core 71

193 Intuit 103

121 K-1 2 MicroMedia Publishing . 1 58

147 Kinemation 34

91 Kyan Software 1 54

94 Kyan Software 1 68

4 Koan Enterprises 1 59

28 Legend Industries 42

Lightspeed Software 123

177 LiveSoft 122

6 MasterMedia Supply 159

* Microlon, Inc 41

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206 Microprose 55

Mindscape 27, 28, 29

251 MGR Software 168

55 Natl AppleWorks User Group .169

98 Nexo Distribution 159

100 Nibble Notch 170

110 Northeastern Software . . 162, 163

37 OKS 44

120 Orange Micro 7

122 Orange Micro 100

42 Origin Systems 15

52 PBI Software 157

PC Network 66, 67

276 Pinpoint Publishing. ... 114, 115

277 Pinpoint Publishing 116,117

29 Precision Data Products ... .171

273 Precision International 26

Preferred Computing 53

50 ProComp 158

49 Professor Jones 1 69

128 Programs Plus . 98, 99

32 Pro-Tech-Tronics 1 04

111 Computer Direct. . . 135, 165, 167

69 PSI/Pro. Software 49

68 Psyche Software 1 60

288 Q-Mar Group 33

287 Q-Mar Group 35

286 Q-Mar Group 37

16 Quinsept 140

RC Systems 23

212 RC Systems 81

214 Rocky Mtn. Medical 24

165 Roger Coats 39

250 Roger Wagner 13

46 Russ Systems, Inc 156

205 Scholastic Software 16,17

86 Sensible Software 143

242 Sensible Software 141

246 Sensible Software 146

1 43 Silicon Express 43

218 Sir-Tech Software 21

96 Softronics 159

47 Software Simplified 171

8 Software Solutions 1 59

217 Software Touch, The 149

Southern California

Research Group 142

99 Spectrum Holobyte 172

Spinnaker 75, 77, 79, 80

47 StatSoft 154

67 Stellation Two 140

26 Stellation Two 1 60

73 Street Electronics CV4

239 Styleware 175

156 Sublogic Corp 57

158 Sublogic Corp CV2

252 Telemax 158

Telestar/Zoom Telephonies .... 38

39 ThirdWave Technology 147

140 Timeworks 3

1 95 U ni versity Software 139

264 Utilico Microware 122

15 Uptime 11

34 VIP Technologies 87

199 Wenger Corp 25

109 Wesha Technologies 158

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Nineteen eighty-six has
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blitzky, its first game with
graphics (see Game Room,
October 1986, p. 129).
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ators of dazzling animated
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Amnesia may be the
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sleepy; you find and run
out of money, converse
with characters, and ex-
plore, explore, explore.
Four thousand locations on
650 simulated streets, as
well as an entire subway
system, help Amnesia's
Manhattan come alive.

As in any adventure, it's
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cause the author is Thomas
M. Disch, Campbell Award

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Electronic Arts' first text adventure: Manhattan mystery with a
twist.

winner and master science-
fiction storyteller, Amnesia's
story line is unusually
strong.

The game gets off to a
nightmarish start, then,
through innumerable twists
and turns of plot, gives you
terror, tension, comedy, and
mystery. Few adventures of-
fer this strong a combina-
tion of story, atmosphere,
and just plain good writing.

Lost in the City

The game's title, Amne-
sia, perfectly summarizes
the theme of this adven-
ture. Waking up in a hotel
room in midtown Manhat-
tan, you look at yourself in
the mirror and receive a
mind-numbing shock. The
face staring back at you
belongs to a complete
stranger; you can't even re-
member your own name.

To complement the horror
of feeling mentally naked,
you find that you're physi-
cally naked as well. A
quick look around yields

nothing but the basics of
any hotel room— a bed and
sheets, a bathroom, a
phone, an empty closet, a
chest of drawers with a
Gideon Bible, and a TV— no
clothes, no cash, no change,
not even a subway token.
The only anomaly is an
Apple II computer.

To begin, keep the first
rule of adventure gaming in
mind: Search everything, try
everything, and take every-
thing that isn't nailed down.
Make some calls from the
phone in your room; turn
on your TV and switch
channels. If you painstak-
ingly search the contents of
the entire room, you'll
come up with some objects
and clues to get you
started. Here's a hint:
Where in the hotel can you
go wearing a sheet?

The answer to that ques-
tion (and many others) lies
in Amnesia's documenta-
tion. (The game manual is
also vital in explaining the
mechanics of play for first-
time adventurers.) It in-
cludes a guide to the Sun-

derland Hotel, the seedy
establishment in which you
find yourself as the game
begins.

You'll also find a map of
Manhattan from 1 1 0th
Street down, with a subway
guide on the reverse, and
an address book containing
17 entries and phone num-
bers—your most important
tool. You'll have to call
each number, then follow
the resulting instructions to
travel around the city— an
interesting, and hazardous,
expedition. (Use your cross-
street indexer to find some
of these places.)

Where you wind up will
depend on your ability to
develop a feel for Amnesia.
If you can psych yourself
up to think like Disch, you'll
discover that he doesn't
like easy solutions, superfi-
cial exploration, or unwary
travelers. You could end up
safely married to a pretty
young woman on a sheep
ranch in Australia, or beg-
ging for spare change on
Times Square. The possibili-
ties also include sudden
death at any number of lo-
cations, as well as the opti-
mal ending— finding out
who you really are and liv-
ing to tell the tale. What-
ever happens, Amnesia will
be a fascinating, challeng-
ing experience. ■

Brian Murphy is anxious to
learn what you think of the
current state of computer
games. Write him at inCider,
Elm Street, Peterborough,
NH 03458, and let him know
your opinion.

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Demolition Division ot Dragon 18.00

Spelling Whiz or Word Invasion 18.00

Freddies Puzzles 18.00

Create With Garfield 18.00

EDU-WARE/ PEACHTREE

Compu Read 15.50

SA1 Word Attack Skills 15.50

Spelling Bee Games 20.50

Algebra 1, 2, 3, or 4 20.50

Algebra 5 1 6 25.50

Writing Skills 1, 2,3,4,5 20.50

Hands on Bosk 25.00

Introduction to Counting 18.50

Fractions « Decimals 20.50

FISHER PRICE

Alpha Build 15.50

Peter Rabbit Reading 23.50

HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH

Harcourt SAT 44.50

horcourt GRE ot ACT 50.50

GROLIER

Science Island at Treasure Hun 23.50

Easy Graph ot Friendly Filet 23.50

Educok 29.50

HAYDEN

Word Cbollenge 10.50

LEARNING COMPANY

Rocky 's Boots or Robot Odyssey .... 28.50
Number Stumper or Reader Rabbi . . . 23.00

Magk Spells or Word Spinner 20.00

Bumble Gomes or Bumble Plot 23.00

Gertrude's Puzzles or Secrets 25.50

Addition Magkktn 20.00

Juggles Rainbow 17.50

Moptown Hotel 23.50

MAGNUM

Super Speed Reading 30.00

MECC

Elementary Series (Each) 29.00

Moth at Health Series (Each) 29.00

MICROSOFT

Typing Tutor H 16.00

MlLLItXEH

Math Sequences (Each) 20.00

Milliken Word Processor 41.00

MINDSCAPE

Perfect Score SAT 41.00

Keybootd Cadet 23.00

Luschet Profile 23.00

SCARBOROUGH SYSTEMS

Build o Book About You 18.00

Boston Computet Diet 47.00

Mostertype's Writing Wizard 47.00

Mastertype's filer 23.00

Mostertype's New and Improved .... 23.00

Run for the Money 22.00

Picture Writer 23.00

Connecticut Orders call 203-375-3860 In Canada 1-800-843-0074

ANY COMPARABLE ADVERTISED PRICE BY $l

SCHOLASTIC WIZWARE

Fact and Fiction Toolkit 22.50

Store Tree oi Story Make/ 21.00

Turtle Track or Agent USA 23.00

Operation Frog or logic Builder 23.00

Logo Robot or Kids at Work 14.00

SENSIBLE SOFTWARE

Report Catd 32.00

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

Chem lab 23.00

Typing Tutor (II 29.00

SPINNAKER SOFTWARE

Fraction Fever or Face Maker 14.50

File and Report ot Spreadsheet 34.00

Snooper Troops 1 or 2 19.00

Story Machine ot Grandma's Hon ... 14.50

Kindercomp or Kids on Keys 14.50

Spinnaker Word Processor CALL

Alphabet Zoo or Kidwriter 17.50

In Search Of 19.00

Adventure Creator 17.50

Trains 17.50

Counting Parade 17.50

Sun Ducks 17.50

Delta Drawing 23.00

Homework Helper: Math Problems. . . 23.00

Homework Helper: Writing 23.00

SPRINGBOARD

Early Games ot Piece ol Coke 20.00

Make a Match or Fraction Facto 16.00

Mosk Parade 21.50

Easy As ABC 21.50

Muthbusters 17.50

Music Maestro 19.00

Rainbow Pointer 19.00

Puzzle Master 19.00

TERRAPIN

Terrapin logo 51.00

Terrapin logo 10 Pack 155.00

TIMEWORKS

Evelyn Wood Dynamic Reader 40.00

WEEKLY READER

Exploring Tobies ond Graphs 19.00

Sticky Beat Series (Each) 23.00

ENTERTAINMENT

ACCOLADE

Beachhead II 20.00

Dam Busters 19.50

Fight Night 19.50

Hardball 19.50

law ol the West 19.50

PSI #5 Trading Post 19.50

Sundae 19.50

ACTIVISION

Alcazar 23.00

Abet Ego 28.50

Master ol the Lamps 23.00

Pitfall II 23.00

Great American Road Race 23.00

Computer Discovery Kit 23.00

Star League Baseball 18.00

Borrenvttd Time 23.00

Countdown to Shutdown 23.00

Ghosfbusters or Zenii 23.00

Mindshadow or Space Shuttle 23.00

The Tracer Sanction ot Hacker 23.00

GAMEMAKER 29.00

AVALON HILL

Under Rre 33.50

AVANT GUARD

Dave Winfield's Battel Up 21.75

loe Theisman's Football 21.00

BANTAM PUBLISHING

Escape or Cave of Time 21.00

Fourth Protocol 23.00

I'Oamiono The Wizard 23.00

Sherlock Holmes Another Bow 23.00

BLUE CHIP

Millionaire, Baron or Tycoon 35.00

Squire 35.00

KODERBUND

Captain Goodnight 20.00

jiompionship Loderunnet 20.00

lode Runner ot Korateko 20.00

tak of the Sun 23.00

Serpents Star 23.00

Where. . . Is Carmen Sad Diego 23.00

CBS SOFTWARE

Murder by the Dozen or Felony 15.00

DATASOFT

Alternate Reolity 23.50

Bruce lee or Canon 21.00

Kotonis Rift 23.00

Zorro or the Goonies 21.00

Mr. Do 21.00

ELECTRONIC ARTS

Adventure Construction Set 30.00

Age of Adventure 21.50

Atchon 21.00

Atchon II or Skyfoi 24.00

Autoauei 35.00

Bard's Tale ot Reach fat the Stars. . . 27.00

Maebius 34.00

Cottiers ot War 31.00

Europe Ablaze 31.00

Musk Construction Set 24.00

One-On-One 23.50

Pinball Construction Set 21.00

Seven Cities of Gold 24.00

Wilderness 31.00

Chessmastet 2000 24.00

Murder on the Zindemeuf 13.00

Super Boulder Dash 21.00

Skyfox 24.00

lords ol Conquest 21.00

Ogre 31.00

EPVX

Bollblozer 23.00

Eidoln 23.00

Rescue on Fractulus 23.00

Summer Games I or II 23.00

Temple of Asphai Trilogy 23.00

Winter Games 23.00

World's Greatest Baseball Game ... . 20.00

World's Greatest Football Game 23.00

HAVDEN

Saigon III 29.00

Inca 29.00

INFOCOM

A Mind Forever Voyaging 25.00

Ballyhoo 22.50

Cutthroats or Zork I 22.50

Spellbreaker 27.00

Fooblitzky 22.50

Wishbringer 22.50

Trinity CALL

Deadline, Suspended or Starcro 28.00

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Goto 22.50

Plonetfoll at Enchanter 22.50

Sorcerer, Suspect at Infidel 26.00

Witness at Seastalker 22.50

Zork II or Zork III 26.00

MICROPROSE

Crusade in Europe 23.00

Decision in the Desert 23.00

F-15 Strike Eagle or Solo Flig 20.00

Gunship 20.00

Silent Service 20.00

NATO Commander 20.00

Confiict in Vietnam 24.00

Aerojet 20.00

MICRO LEAGUE SPORTS

Micro league Baseball 23.00

Micro league Managers Disk 23.00

Mkro League Teom Disk 1985 11.50

MINDSCAPE

Crossword Mogfc 29.00

Holley Project 26.00

James Bond View to a Kill 23.00

Rombo 23.00

Steven King The Mist 23.00

Voodoo Island 23.00

OeiaVu 32.00

Forbidden Castle 23.00

Racter 26.00

ONE STEP SOFTWARE

Golfs Best Pinehuist 29.00

Golfs Best St Andrews 29.00

ORIGIN SYSTEMS

Auto Duel 36.00

Moebius 36.00

Ultimo III 33.00

Ultima IV 33.00

PENGUIN

Coveted Mirror 20.00

Crimson Crown 20.00

Ootopos 20.00

The Quest at Ring Quest 20.00

Xyphus or Transylvania 20.00

POLARWARE

Swoid of Kodash 20.00

RANDOM HOUSE

Alpine Encounter

SEGA

Froggei 3-Deep or Super Zoxxon .

Spy Hunter ai Buck Rogers

Topper or Star Trek

SIERRA ON LINE

King's Quest I ur II

The Bluck Cauldron

Championship Boxing

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

Frogger 3 Deep

Spy Hunter, Tappet or Stat Trek .

Paper Airplone Const. Set

Sill TECH

Wizardry I

Wizardry II

Wizardry III

Wizprint

SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE

Goto

STRATEGIC SIMULATIONS
Baltic 85 « Gemstone Warrior . .

Battalion Commander

Bottle for Normandy

Bathe Group

Field of Rre

Geopolitique 1990

Germany 1985 ot Carrier Fence . .
Imperium Gatocticum ot Broads! .

Nam

North Atlantic 86

Norway 85

Objective Kursk or Phantasie —
Phantasie II

KRAFT

23 00 Kraft Joystick DC or HE 24.00

Kraft Qukk Stick IIC 48.00

20 00 STEDIWATT

26 00 Stediwott 4 Outlet 27.50

26 00 StediwaH 6 Outlet 30.00

Stediwott 8 Outlet 33.00

. 29.00 MCT

23 00 MO Speed Demon 136.00

20 00 STREET ELECTRONICS

Echo II Plus 92.50

20 00 Cricker IIC 65.00

25 50 TITAN TECHNOLOGIES

23 00 Accelerator HE 203.00

Saturn T28K Ramcard CALL

28 00 SWEET MICRO

20 00 Mockingboard A or B 64.00

23 00 Mockingboard C 113.00

14 50 Mockingboard D 123.00

RDF 1985

Reforger 88 or Kampfgiuppe .

Six Gun Shootout

USAAF

Wat in Russia

Wizard's Crown

SUB LOGIC

Flight Simulator II

Night Mission Pinball

SYNAPSE SOFTWARE

Brimstone

Mindwheel or Essex

TELARIUM

Drogonworld or Shadowkeep .
Forenheit 451 or Amazon . . .

Rendezvous with Rama

Nine Princes in Amber

Perry Mason

WINDHAM CLASSICS

Below the Root

Swiss Family Robinson

Treasure Island

Wizard of Oz

BLANK MEDIA

. 20.00

. 20.00
. 23.00
. 23.00
. 33.00
. 22.00
. 23.00
. 34.00
. 23.00
. 22.00
. 34.00
. 20.00
. 23.00
. 22.00
. 29.00
. 20.00
. 34.00
. 21.50
. 31.00
. 46.00
. 22.00

. 30.50
. 22.00

. 26.00
. 26.00

. 23.00
. 23.00
. 23.00
. 23.00
. 23.00

. 18.00
. 18.00
. 18.00
. 18.00

DISK DRIVERS

APPLE

Unidrsk WCataiyst CALL

Duo Disk w/Acc. Kit CALL

IIC ADD ON CALL

AMERICAN MICRO

A2 143K 147.00

Slimline HE 147.00

Slimline IIC 155.00

Contralto Card 45.00

QUARK

QC-10 Hard Disk wtatarysl CALL

QC-20 Hord Disk w/Catolyst 1109.00

PRINTER INTERFACES

ORANGE MICRO

Hot link 45.00

Buffered Grapplei 129.00

Giapoler Plus 69.00

TEXTPRINT

Print It (Serial or Parallel) 123.00

— tOWAT -

THIRDWARE

Fingerprint Plus

. 85.00

MONITORS

Elephant SS/DD .
Elephant OS/DD .
Verbatim SS/DD .
Verbatim DS/DD .
Memotex SS/DD .
BASF SS/DD ...
Maxell SS/DD. . .

.9.00
11.00

. 14.00
17.50
12.00
. 9.50

. 13.00

APPLE

Color Monitor HE or IIC CALL

AMDEK

Color 300 205.00

Color 600 380.00

Video 300A Amber 115.00

Video 300G Green 110.00

DVMIII 115.00

PRINCETON

HX-9 CALL

HX-12 CALL

RGB Interface CALL

TAXAN

115 Green 113.00

116 Amber 117.00

(10 335.00

620 380.00

630 415.00

640 485.00

ACCESSORIES/
TURBO BOARDS

APPLE COMPUTER

Apple Mouse IIC CALL

Apple Mouse HE CALL

Appkworks Modifier 64K 36.50

Appleworks Modifier 128K 46.50

CH HAYES

Hayes Mach II 26.00

Hayes Mach III 32.00

INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Rip N File 50 10.00

KEYTRONICS

KB 200 179.00

KOALA TECHNOLOGIES

Koala Pad 71.00

Gibson Light Pen CALL

PRINTERS

APPLE

Imagewiitet II w/Acc. Kit CALL

Imogewritet 15" w/Acc. Kit CALL

tozerwittet CALL

BROTHER

HR-15 XL CALL

HR-25 485.00

HR-35 725.00

CITIZEN

MSP-10 CALL

MSP-15 355.00

MSP-20 320.00

MSP-25 479.00

EPSON

Spectrum IX-80 CALL

Spectrum IX-90 w/Acc. Kit CALL

JX-80 Color Printer CALL

FX-B5 CALL

LQ-800 CALL

10-1500 CALL

DX-10 CALL

OX-20 CALL

AP-80 Imagewtiter CALL

JUKI

Juki 5500 Color CALL

Juki 6100 CALL

Juki 6300 648.00

MANNESMAN TALLY

MT-85 365.00

MT-86 425.00

NEC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

All Nets CALL

OKIDATA

92P 315.00

182P CALL

192P CALL

192 Imagewiitet CALL

193P CALL

193 Imaoewriter CALL

Okimate 20 Color CALL

PANASONIC

CCP 1080 198.00

KXP 1091 238.00

KXP 1092 CALL

KXP 3131 CALL

KXP 3151 395.00

QUME

Letter Pro 20 430.00

SILVER REED

EXP 500P 185.00

EXP 550P 365.00

EXP 800 CALL

STAR MICRONICS

NX 10 CALL

SG 15 CALL

SDIO 335.00

SD 15 445.00

SR 10 479.00

SR 15 579.00

TOSHIBA

P351 1075.00

P341 795.00

MULTIFUNCTION
BOARDS

APPLIED ENGINEERING

Trans Warp Accelerator CALL

Romworks II CALL

RGB Option 97.00

Z RAM IIC CALL

System Clock 59.50

Viewmastet 107.00

Tiwemoste H.Q 99.00

BSR Option 38.00

Z-80 Plus 107.00

APRICORN

Apikom 16K Rom Cord 65.00

Apticorn 64K Extend It 45.00

AST RESEARCH

AST Mkro Star (10MG HD W/B.U. . 1750.00

AST Multi I/O 138.00

CHECKMATE TECHNOLOGIES

Checkmate Zee-80A Cord 68.00

Checkmate IIE-80 Ram Catd 59.00

Checkmate Muhitam C (256K) CAll

Checkmate Muhitam C (512KJ CAll

Checkmate Muhlrum HE 135.00

INFORMATION APPLIANCE, INC.

Swyftcord 68.00

PRACTICAL PERIPHERALS

Ptoctock HE ot IIC 99.00

QUAORAM

Quadram Pro Dos Clock/Colendar . . . . 58.00
Quadtom Extended Multifunction . . . 155.00
Quadram Buffered Serial Int. (64K) . 97.00

Quadrant Parallel Interface 65.00

Quadram Parallel Caid w/Graphi .... 73.00

Quadram 80 Column 64K Card 97.00

Quadram Multi-Cote Board w/256 . . 175.00

Quadram E-Rom 80 96.00

STREET ELECTRONICS

Alphabits II 77.00

Uvewiie w/ctock 67.00

Business Card Serial 133.00

Business Card Parallel 154.00

THUNDERWARE

Thundeiclock Plus 103.00

CREATIVE PERIPHERALS

Dim Trax HE or IIC 78.00

TELECOMMUNICATION
SOFTWARE

APPLE COMPUTER

Apple Access CALL

COMPUSERVE

Compuserve Starter Kit 19.00

DOW JONES

Spreadsheet link 130.00

Dow Jones Starter Kit 23.00

HAYES

Smattcom 1 68.00

Haves Terminal Program 57.00

MICROSTUFF

Crosstalk 98.00

QUARK

Terminus 67.00

SOFTRONICS

Softermll 121.00

SOFTWARE PUBLISHING

PES: Access 44.00

SOURCE TELECOMPUTING

Source Subscription Kit 29.00

UNITED SOFTWARE INDUSTRIES

ASCII Express Pro (Dos or Pro 74.00

MODEMS

ANCHOR AUTOMATION

Volksmodem 1200 177.50

Volksmodem HE, IIC or Mac Cabl . . . . 8.00
NOVATION

Apple Cat II 187.00

212 Upgrade Kit 215.00

212 Apptecat 349.00

APPLE COMPUTER

Apde ^Personnel Modem/W/Acckit CALL

Hayes Smartmodem 300 132.00

Hayes Smartmodem 300 IIC 153.00

Hayes Mkromodem HE W/SC I 133.00

Hayes Smartmodem 1200 358.00

Hayes Smartmodem 2400 570.00

PRENTICE

Popcorn X-100 Modem 244.00

PROMETHEUS

Prometheus 1200 External CALL

Prometheus Internal IIE/II+ CALL

ZOOM TELEPHONIC

Zoom Modem HE 103.00

Zoom Modem HE Plus 109.00

APPLE SPECIALS

ORIGIN SYSTEMS

MoeOi^

i( SO

Ultima tti

35 SO

MICROPROSE

Siipn' Senricr

7 ;f

ALS

MEGAHAUS

:- it

Sepn'twerks

'3 JL

Vlegowofks

'3 DC

MICROSOFT

Applesoft Compile'

Iflt H

OKIDATA

j>< rjf

ELECTRONIC ARTS

A^tDdLei

30 Ot

PBI

enet

35 00

PINPOINT PUBLISHING

Pinpoint

iJ St)

MINDSCAPE

Rombo

;3 oc

STEOIWATT

Stediwatt 4 L 'lpt

2 1 00

AVANTE GARDE

Dove Winlteld's Bone' lip

r so

AVALON HILl

ilndei Fue

33 St

BASF

3ns> SS DD

'0 DA

V TECH

loser '28

Circle 110 on Reader Service Card.

HINTS/TECHNIQUES

Apple users know that there's always
an easier way to get the job done.
A shortcut here, an elegant twist
there. That's what Hints/Techniques
is all about. It's an information swap
for readers who want to share their
programming pointers, DOS tips,
hardware secrets, AppleWorks applica-
tions, WPL enhancements, and all
those other insights that make you go
'Aha!" in the night. So read on and
see if you don't find just the solution
you've been looking for.

Binary-to-Text Revision

by Thomas L. Muller

Binary-to-Text Converter (Hints/Tech-
niques, June 1986, p. 115) produces
text files from binary without requiring
a second program to regenerate the
latter. Readers have pinpointed two
conditions, though (in addition to the
quirk mentioned in the June article),
under which this conversion program
doesn't function properly:

1) A binary file above memory loca-
tion 32767 yields an ILLEGAL QUAN-
TITY ERROR message. The original
program uses the variable AR°/o to
keep track of the memory location it's
currently converting, but integer vari-
ables can't exceed 32767. To fix this
bug, change AR% to AR.

2) When the binary file loads into
memory just below HIMEM or LO-
MEM, the areas in which your Apple
stores data, those data may overwrite
the binary file. Binary-to-Text Con-
verter produces no error message,
but the resulting text file is scrambled.
Adjust HIMEM to accommodate both
your binary file and your data.

The revised program (see Listing
1) corrects these problems and in-
cludes a few enhancements that
make it easier to use with very large
files— even up to 30,000 bytes. ■

Write to Thomas Muller at 156 Starr
Road, Newark, DE 19711.

Word-Processor Data Base

by Arthur Rex Rogers

Sometimes you need the power of
a data base, but for only a small

164

Listing 1. Revised Binary-to-Text Converter.

REM THIS ROUTINE CONVERTS A BINARY FILE TO A TEXT FILE
THAT CAN BE EXEC ' ED.

PEEK (104)

THA

20 LC = PEEK (103) + 256 *
30 HIMEM: LC + 2000
40 DIM HS(16) ,A%(2)
50 D$ = CHR$ (4)
60 INPUT "BINARY FILE NAME?
70 PRINT D$;"MONICO"
80 PRINT D$ ; "BLOAD ";FILE$
90 TFILE$ = "T-" + FILE?
100 AD = PEEK (43634) + 256
110 LN = PEEK (43616) + 256
120 IF ((AD < LC) AND (AD +

';FILE$

* PEEK (43635)

* PEEK (43617)
LN) < LC) OR (AD

(LC + 2000) ) THEN

130

140

150
160
170
180
190
200
210
220
230

IF ( (AD <
GOTO 140

PRINT "BINARY FILE OCCUPIES MEMORY NEEDED BY": PRINT "TH
IS PROGRAM. RE-BOOT DOS, THEN TRY": PRINT "POKE 103,1 :
POKE 104,64 : POKE 16384,0": PRINT "THEN RE-LOAD THIS P
ROGRAM AND TRY AGAIN . " : END

PRINT "INSERT NEW DISK IF DESIRED AND HIT A KEY": GET AS
: PRINT

PRINT D$;"OPEN " ;TFILE$
PRINT D$; "DELETE ";TFILE$
PRINT D$;"OPEN " ; TFILE$
PRINT D$ ; "WRITE ";TFILE$
PRINT : PRINT "CALL -151"
FOR J = TO LN - 1

[ = I + 1
IF I = 1 THEN GOSUB
Y% = PEEK (J + AD)
240 N2% = Y% / 16
250 Nl% = Y% - N2% * 16
260 IF Nl% < 10 THEN HIS
270 IF Nl% >
280 IF N2% <

340

290 IF N2% > 9 THEN H2S
300 H$(I) = H2$ + Hl$
310 IF I = 16 OR J = LN
320 NEXT J
330 GOTO 500
340 AR = AD + J
350 A%(2) = AR / 256
360 A%(1) = AR - A%(2) *

= STRS (NI%)

9 THEN HIS = CHR$ (Nl% +

10 THEN H2$ = STR$ (N2% )

55)

CHR$ (N2% + 55)

1 THEN GOSUB 470

256

460
470

480
490
500
510

515

520
530

9 THEN Hl$

10 THEN H2$ =
9 THEN H2$ =
+ Hl$ + HAS

FOR K

STRS (Nl%)
CHR$ (Nl% + 55)

STR$ (N2%)
CHR$ (N2% + 55)

1 TO 16: PRINT

370 HA$ = "": FOR L = 1 TO 2
380 N2% = A%(L) / 16
390 Nl% = A%(L) - N2% * 16
400 IF Nl% < 10 THEN Hl$ =
410 IF Nl% >
420 IF N2% <
430 IF N2% >
440 HA$ = H2$
450 NEXT L
RETURN
PRINT HA$;
K: PRINT
1=0: FOR K = 1 TO 16:H$(K) =
RETURN
PRINT "3D0G"
PRINT "PRINT"
EN TYPE"; CHR$ (34)
PRINT "PRINT"; CHRS (34)
(34)

: PRINT D$; "CLOSE ; TFILES
: PRINT D$; "NOMONICO" : PRINT
540

•;H$(K);: NEXT

NEXT K

CHRS (34); "INSERT NEW DISK IF DESIRED, TH

BSAVE " ; FILES ; " , A" ; AD ; " , L" ; LN ;

540

CHR$
PRINT
PRINT

GOTO
END

CHR$ (7) ; "FINISHED"

November 1986

To Order

Call APPLE Call

(312) 382-3050 Software Sale < J12 > 302-5050

Computer Direct offers a large selection at affordable prices.

Access
Z4013

Action Pack $14.95

Artsci

Z4278 Magic Memory $39.95

Z4279 Magicalc $49.95

Z4326 Magic Window $49.95

Accolade

Z4218 Hardball $18.95

Z4219 Law Of The West $18.95

Z4220 Psi Trading Co $18.95

Z4221 Fight Night $18.95

Z4222 Dam Buster $18.95

Activision

Z4196 Ghostbusters $21.95

Z4125 Great American Rd. Race $22.95
Z4126 Master Of The Lamps ...$20.95

Z4237 Borrowed Time $21.95

Z4234 Hacker $24.95

Blue Chip

Z4287 Millionaire $22.95

Z4288 Baron $22.95

Z4289 Tycoon $22.95

Z4290 Squire $22.95

Sub-Logic

Z4280 Flight Simulator $29.95

Z4281 Night Mission Pinball ...$21.95

Springboard

Z4208 Newsroom $29.95

Z4018 Clip Art 1 $15.95

Z4019 Clip Art 2 $20.95

Z4199 Certificate Maker $30.95

Z4332 Graphics Expander $21.95

Broderbund

Z4036 Bank Street Writer $37.95

Z4038 Champ Lode Runner $19.95

Z4039 Karateka $19.95

Z4168 Print Shop $25.95

Z4169 Graphics Library 1 $14.95

Z4170 Graphics Library 2 $14.95

Z4171 Graphics Library 3 $14.95

Z4205 Print Shop Companion . . $21.95
Z4045 Where Is Carmen

Sandiego? $22.95

Random House

Z4081 Alpine Encounter $19.95

Z4082 Charlie Brown's ABC's . . $19.95
Z4083 Garfield Double Dares . . . $19.95
Z4084 Garfield, Eat Your Words$ 19.95

Z4191 Snoopy Writer $19.95

Z4216 Snoopy's Skywriter

Scrambler $19.95

Designware

Z4046 Algebra $19.95

Z4047 Creature Creator $9.95

Z4048 The Body Transparent. . . $23.95

Z4049 Crypto Cube $19.95

Z4050 European Nations &

Locations $23.95

Z4051 The Grammar Examiner .$23.95

Z4052 Math Maze $22.95

Z4053 Mission Algebra $23.95

Z4054 Remember! $39.95

Z4055 Spellagraph $22.95

Z4056 Spellakazam $17.95

Z4057 Spellicopter $22.95

Z4058 Spelling & Reading Primer$22.95

Z4059 States & Traits $23.95

Z4060 Trap-a-zoid $22.95

Electronic Arts

Z4132 Carriers At War $30.95

Z4133 Dr. J & Larry Bird 1 on 1 . $9.95

Z4134 Financial Cookbook $27.95

Z4135 Hard Hat Mack $9.95

Z4136 Murder On The

Zinderneuf $9.95

Z41 38 Reach For the Stars $26.95

Z4139 7 Cities of Gold $9.95

Z4140 Skyfox $22.95

Strategic Simulations Inc.

Z4245 Nam ..$21.95

Z4246 Colonial Conquest $21 .95

Z4248 Battle of Antietam $26.95

Z4251 U.S.A.A.F $30.95

Z4252 Panzer Granadier $21.95

Spectrum Holobyte

Z4209 Gato

Epyx

Z4141 Ballblazer $19.95

Z4142 Impossible Mission $14.95

Z4143 Pitstop 2 $19.95

Z4144 Robots of Dawn $14.95

Z4145 Summer Games 2 $22.95

Z4146 World's Greatest Baseball$19.95

Z4241 Winter Games $22.95

Z4242 Summer Olympic Games . $22.95

Z4243 Movie Monster Game . . . $24.95

Z4243 World's Greatest Football $22.95

Fisher Price

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Figure 1. Word-processor data base divided into fields for inventory information.
Stock Material Description Retail Quan. Cost Ext.

no.

<-9sp-> <-9sp-> <-28 spaces- > <-7sp-> <-6sp-> <-7sp-> <-7sp->

Figure 2. Section of the inventory data base.

C. COMPONENTS

Stock no.

Material

Description >rtl>quan>whsl>ext>

660001

EAR WIRES

.1865

660010

BEAD EAR WIRES

0.47

660033

EAR POST DOUBLE NOTCH

100

.1274

990-758

7MM 6PR EZ MOUNT CAST

2.22

2MM BEADS

.05

3MM BEADS

.065

AB996-018

MAPLE LEAVES pair

.99

Figure 3. Inventory data base after calculation of item values and total.

C. COMPONENTS

Stock no.

Material

Description >rtl>quan>whsl>ext>

660001

EAR WIRES

.1865

16.04

660010

BEAD EAR WIRES

0.47

6.22

660033

EAR POST DOUBLE NOTCH

100

.1274

12.74

990-758

7MM 6PR EZ MOUNT CAST

2.22

4.44

2MM BEADS

.05

3.65

3MM BEADS

.065

.13

AB996-018

MAPLE LEAVES pair

.99

7.92

Figure 4. Inventory data base after generation of price list.

C. COMPONENTS

Stock no.

Material

Description

Price

Quantity

660001

EAR WIRES

.23

660010

BEAD EAR WIRES

.59

660033

EAR POST DOUBLE NOTCH

.16

100

990-758

7MM 6PR EZ MOUNT CAST

2.78

2MM BEADS

.06

3MM BEADS

.08

AB996-018

MAPLE LEAVES pair

1.24

Listing 2. Inventory Calculator.

10 HOME :D$ = CHR$ (4): PRINT "READING INVENTORY INTO MEMOR
Y "

20 X = 0:TX = 0:EX = 0: DIM X$(400):EX$ = "":TX$ = ""
30 PRINT D$;"OPEN MAIN.INV": PRINT D$ ; "READ MAIN.INV"
40 INPUT X$(X)

50 IF LEFT$ (XS(X),3) = "EOF" THEN X = X - 1: GOTO 70

60 X = X + 1: GOTO 40

70 PRINT D$; "CLOSE": HOME

90 IF Z = X THEN GOSUB 1100

100 IF LEN (X$(Z)) < 72 THEN GOTO 170

110 X$(Z) = LEFT$ (X$(Z),71)

130 EX = INT (EX * 10 * 2 + .5) / INT (10 * 2 + .5)
140 TX = TX + EX

150 EX$ = STRS (EX) : GOSUB 1000
160 XS(Z) = X$(Z) + EX$
170 PRINT X$(Z)
180 NEXT

190 PRINT D$;"OPEN EXTEND. INV": PRINT D$ ; "WRITE EXTEND. INV"
200 FOR Y = TO X
210 PRINT X$(Y)
220 NEXT

230 PRINT D$ ; "CLOSE"
300 HOME : PRINT X$(X)
999 END

Listing continued.

amount of information. Using your
word processor and a small file-man-
agement program written in BASIC,
you can handle a number of every-
day recordkeeping tasks.

For example, my wife maintains rec-
ords for her jewelry business, which
has a stock of about 300 items. That
small quantity hardly justifies buying
an expensive inventory program, al-
though we do have to track inventory
for tax purposes. My wife also prefers
to use her sales slips and invoices to
keep a running inventory. Some cal-
culation is required to arrive at a total
value for taxes; she also needs a re-
tail price list based on a standard
markup from cost.

If your needs are similar, consider
the following solution. Using your
word processor to maintain a data
base and write a text file, you can
access the text file from BASIC, ex-
tract the figures you need from each
line, perform the calculations you
need, and reformat them for another
file, which you can later print with
your word processor.

You must define each line in your
data base at a set length, then seg-
ment it into fields that contain informa-
tion on each item in the inventory
(see Figure 1). Each line can then be
considered a string, as defined in
BASIC, and can be manipulated by a
BASIC program. (One empty space
between fields improves readability.)

First consider the amount of room
you'll need to adequately describe
each inventory item; we decided 80
columns would be enough for our ap-
plication. The number of characters
per record is limited only by your
printer; using compressed mode, you
may be able to print as many as 132
characters or more per line, provided
your word processor can generate
lines that long.

When designing the format of your
data base, try to fit one record per
line. If you need longer records,
stretch the fields of the first part of
the record so that the data fit across
the entire length of your word proces-
sor's line. Then start the second line
with a new field in the first column,
but make sure that a character (not
one or more spaces) is always stored
in the first column; if not, the proces-
sor will probably format out those ini-
tial spaces, thus upsetting the design
of the data base.

Figure 2 shows a small part of the
inventory data base and demonstrates
how the various fields fit within the
framework outlined in Figure 1. The

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Listing continued.

1000 FOR Y = 1 TO LEN (EX$): IF MID$ (EX$,Y,1) < > " . " THEN
NEXT Y

1010 A = LEN (EX$) - Y: IF A = 1 THEN EX$ = EX$ + "0"
1020 IF A < 1 THEN EX$ = EX$ + ".00"

1030 IF LEN (EX$) < > 8 THEN EX$ = " " + EX$ : GOTO 1030
1040 RETURN

1100 EX$ = STR$ (TX) : GOSUB 1000:TX$ = EX$

1110 X$(Z) = " TOTAL VALUE OF INVENTORY IS $" + TX$ :

RETURN End of listing.

, Listing 3. Price List.

10 REM PROGRAM TO CALCULATE RETAIL PRICE AND MAKE A FILE

OF THE INFORMATION
20 HOME :X = 0:TX = 0:EX = 0: DIM X$(400):EX$ = "":TX$ = ""
30 D$ = CHRS (4): PRINT D$;"OPEN MAIN.INV": PRINT D$ ; "READ M

AIN.INV"

40 INPUT X$(X): IF LEFT$ (X$(X),3) = "EOF" THEN GOTO 170
50 IF LEFT? (X$(X),5) < > "Stock" THEN GOTO 70
60 X$(X) = LEFT$ (X?(X) ,31) + " Price Quan

tity"

70 IF LEN (X$(X)) < 72 THEN GOTO 150
80 X$(X) = LEFT$ (X$(X),71)

90 IF VAL ( MID? (X$(X) ,49,7) ) < > THEN X$(X) = LEFT$ (

X$(X) ,63) : GOTO 150
100 QN$ = MID$ (X$(X) ,57,6) :CO = ( VAL ( MID$ (X$ (X ) , 64, 7 ) ) )
110 RTL = CO / .8:EX = INT (RTL * 10 " 2 + .5) / INT (10

2 + • 5 ) Listing continued.

heading "C. COMPONENTS" is a
major division within the inventory and
is assigned a letter, the only purpose
of which is to start the line. Column
headings are shortened so that the
calculating program can disregard
them as it passes through the file.
Fields to be calculated are repre-
sented by zeros just to show their
placement.

Listing 2 is a BASIC program that
computes the value of each item in
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Using your word processor as a
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Listing continued.

130 EX$ = STR$ (EX): GOSUB 1000

140 X$(X) = LEFT$ (X$(X),47) + EX? + " " + QNS

150 PRINT X$(X)

160 X = X + 1: GOTO 40

170 PRINT D$ ; "CLOSE"

200 PRINT D$;"OPEN PRICE . LIST . INV" : PRINT D$;"WRITE PRICE. LI

ST.INV"
210 FOR Y = TO X
220 PRINT X$(Y)
230 NEXT

240 PRINT D$; "CLOSE"

250 HOME : PRINT "THAT'S IT. ALL DONE."

999 END

1000 FOR Y = 1 TO LEN (EX$): IF MID$ (EX$,Y,1) < > "." THEN
NEXT Y

1010 A = LEN (EX$) - Y: IF A = 1 THEN EX$ = EX$ + "0"
1020 IF A < 1 THEN EX$ = EX$ + ".00"

1030 IF LEN (EX$) < >' 8 THEN EX$ = " " + EX$ : GOTO 1030
1040 RETURN End of listing.

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Table. Resident locations of WordStar data file.

CP/M Configuration

WS Version

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with the formula d = m*16 + n.

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data to memory locations starting at
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by Vincent D. O'Connor

Applesoft has a number of features
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Let's look at a few of those circum-
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1) Exponentiation. Numbers raised to
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(For example, when you type PRINT
3 A 4 and press return, you'll get an
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portion of the answer. Instead of
PRINT 3*4, type PRINT INT(3M).

2) IF. . . THEN. Comparing numbers in
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in the program below:

5 X = 8.001 -8:Y=.001

10 IF X = Y THEN PRINT "THEY ARE

THE SAME":END
15 PRINT "THEY ARE DIFFERENT"
20 END

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10 IF ABS(X-Y)< = .00001 *ABS(Y)

This program prints THEY ARE
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Despite widespread misconceptions (VIP Technologies' ads begin, "There's an all-new Ap-
ple II, [with]... a new 16-bit CPU"), VIP Professional doesn't require a 16-bit chip,
though it recognizes 65C816 coprocessors. It works fine with a 65C02, given a 256K
memory-expansion card from Applied Engineering or Checkmate (using the RamWorks
or MultiRam standard, not the Apple/AST/RamFactor design). Two disk drives are
enough, though a UniDisk 3.5 and mouse are welcome.

So is a knowledge of 1-2-3. Except for the larger worksheet (256 columns by 8192
rows) of Release 2, VIP is a remarkable match for Release 1A, using identical slash-
and-letter commands to navigate Worksheet, Range, and other familiar menus and sub-
menus. Once they adjust to the different keyboard (open-apple 1 through mimic the
function keys F1-F10, for instance), IBM users will be right at home— using the same files, if
they care to link a PC and Apple via modem.

There's the same killer spreadsheet, with copious math and financial functions and
flexible business charts (like Lotus, VIP uses a separate program to print graphs).
There's the same spreadsheet-style data base and the same awkward but invaluable
macro commands. As for Lotus' famous fast response, a TransWarp card or IIgs would
help: VIP's scrolling and screen redrawing seemed sluggish in our preproduction copy,
though the program did recalculate a 1000-cell worksheet in 50.8 seconds, to Apple-
Works' 53.5. (The real Release 2 did the job in 26.5 seconds on an XT clone.)

To make up for the 8-bit blues, VIP rewards mouse users with Macintosh friendliness.
While it responds to Lotus keyboard commands, the commands also appear on pull-
down menus, with scroll bars, dialog boxes, and mouse-controlled cell pointing for range-
marking convenience that makes VIP a mix of three worlds (Apple II, Mac, and IBM).

According to Editor in Chief Debbie de Peyster, "VIP Professional is the first spread-
sheet to draw a crowd around the computer during testing in the inCider office. The
existence of a Lotus-caliber product on ah Apple II clearly says that the II is an impor-
tant machine in productivity applications."

Review Editor and XT-clone owner Eric Grevstad says, "VIP's dialog boxes are better
with a mouse, but keyboard users will be amazed by its fidelity to 1-2-3— it's significant
both in itself and as a gateway to IBM Lotus files and templates. Release 1A may not
be state-of-the-art next to dreams of Microsoft Excel on the IIgs, but VIP might be the
most powerful Apple II program ever."

VIP Professional costs $249.95, from VIP Technologies Corp., 132 Aero Camino,
Santa Barbara, CA 93117, (805) 968-9567. See our review in January.

Editors' Choice singles out one product each month that the inCider editors feel is a
significant addition to the Apple II family of products. Products may not be available yet
for retail distribution.

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